Analysis of For Many, it's Friday
For someone in Gazza, it’s an aunt’s death
lost, the bereaved sits close to the deceased body
afraid to look at a sun that’s eager to set for the weekend
afraid of the evening that promises eerie darkness
but for most people in the greater Levant, it’s Friday
For a girl somewhere in Alberta, planning her wedding
it’s a day she stops craving for the other side
having found heaven in the eyes of a love-smitten buck
whose mind thinks like a crown prince awaiting his crest
yet, for many people in the prairie, it’s just a Friday
To an unstable teen rapper craving to be loved by a crowd
in Lagos city, seeking relief in fame, its flame and blame
a dreamer dude leaving a rowdy studio at 6pm
to attend a ‘pati’ show by Wizkid, to join the chorus
for most outside the club, it’s another Friday
To an Indian tourist going to Sentosa from Changi Airport
whose mind wants to flush the spoiled stew of his past
so graciously eager to forget the dirty gutter called life
waiting to tweet ‘first day of bungee jump in my life’
alas, outside the Indian-Indian’s mind, it’s Friday
Scheme | XAXBA XXXXA XXXBA XXCCA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111 100111100110 011110111011101 01101011001010 11110001001110 1011001010010 101111010101 10110001101101 111101101011 111010001011010 1101011010111101 010101001011101 01011001010111 1010111111010 111101101010 11100101011111 11111011111 1100101010101011 1011111101011 011101001001110 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,100 |
Words | 201 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 212 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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