Analysis of THE CREATOR

Rebecca Nabuse 1994 (Kamuli)



Come, let's reason together-
Tell me a tale, and a tale tell you I'll
Of a bloke who helped to gather-
And that he created, he helped to kill.
On the river bank they met-
afraid of her parent's wrath and the society's piercing eye,
to him she heed for a heal.
He, the last dough for the village meal-
the sole piece of his mother's wrap;
the last skin on the drum
at his academic climax, such news struck him damn
agape.
It was a psaltery ballad
complacent to his success.
And so-to him, such fate was sent!
Onto her neck, he clung bold
while his head was down bent.
with buzzing and dizziness-
cold she was left
with that inner flesh that saw no cloud!


Scheme ABACDEFFGHIJKLMNMOPQ
Poetic Form Etheree  (40%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1110010 1101001111 10111110 0110101111 1010111 0110101000100101 1111101 101110101 01111101 011101 11010111111 01 110110 0101101 01111111 1001111 111111 1100100 1111 111011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 653
Words 135
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 500
Words per stanza (avg) 127

About this poem

This poem has been used to teach learners but never published before for it is an original composition. I wrote it in commemoration of those girls I grew up with in the village for the fate they befell at the hands of the educated lugubrious village boys.

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Written on November 17, 2022

Submitted by Malcom on November 17, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Rebecca Nabuse

I am a Ugandan remote writer and feminist, a literature and English language teacher. poetry is my passion and food to my soul. more…

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