Analysis of Seven Heavens
Abba Yusif 1997 (Birnin Kudu)
Oh, my feeble fragile being!
Oh! God of seven heavens,
Coal-black veil of nights,
Golden-lit yellowish sun
Whose pale skin fades away
As night kisses it by sunset,
God of Adam and Eve:
The cascading waterfall of heirloins
Mouth agape, bewildered, struck:
"Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah! Oh! Lord,
Tabarakallah, Masha Allah! "
Were the only wisdom I can vomit
For I have seen what eyes
Have never ever met
Since the creation of earth
Could I say she, it, a fiery,
Human, a gazelle or an angel?
For what I see with my heart
Is a hybrid of beautiful creations
A moon-lit vision did I see
Glittering in her golden eyes
Whenas star-like sparkles
Were the adornment of her gums
Her lips were the innocent
Honey-laddened flowery petals
From which a zephyr
Of musky redolence
Speaks out love and wits
Casting a deadly spell of love
Upon its hearer
*Abba Yusif Birnin Kudu*
*25th January, 2024*
Scheme | XAXXXBXA XXXXCBX DXXA DCEX XEFAXXF BD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101010 1111010 11111 1011001 111101 1110111 111001 00101011 1010101 1111 1110 0010101110 111111 110101 1001011 111110100 100011110 1111111 10101100010 01110111 10000101 11110 00010101 0100100 10110010 11010 1101 11101 10010111 01110 10111 11100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 933 |
Words | 179 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 7, 4, 4, 7, 2 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
It's a poem that reflects the mystery of beauty and nature. It portrays the mystification with a beauty that defies definition or description.
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