Analysis of voices of undervalued little ones
Niyigaba Manzi Fabrice 2004 (Rwanda)
Gentle gents of our globe,
Lovely ladies in their robes
Maven mothers of might
This is the day of delight
I’m standing strong in your sight
Seeking shield to defend their right
Fighting for freedom of expression
Of youngsters of great ambition
They’re those often trifled
Taken for granted and credited
Spot their cups of seedling
Raised for chance filling
Some are compelled into armed forces
Shrouded from using their chances
Some are raped and fornicated
With their skills not mapped
At their failure all we call their names is shame
Yet unbearable nightmares haunts on their fame
Their minds muted by midst memories
Tears torturing their abilities
Mother Africa, for how long
They’ll sing sorrowful songs?
Children cited under cursed constraints
Not even directed with consultancy
Girls getting gender prejudice
Sat down by injustice
Of this bigoted society
Withering their sovereignty
Smart kids facing stigmatization
Their ideas facing execution
Lacking chances to climb the stage
Weighted down by unfair treatment
When will there be someone
To look in the genes of little ones
And spot fountain abilities
In African children
They are raised into poverty world
Shrouding their midst sharpened like sword
With great abilities not put at hand
Due to lack of enough funds
Boys and girls dropping out of schools
Skidded on steep slopes
Stereotyped on ground of their nature
Called coons creatures
But I’ve had vision that attest possibilities
Children enjoying quick mobility
I can see the greatest inventors
I can see biologist with best innovation
I can sense successive physicians
And entrepreneurs in young Africans
Winning the mirth and stirring the blood
Lymph of discoveries flowing like flood
The time African children
Will be written all over chronicles
With their great abilities
Enticed to facilities
The pots of sorrows
The thunders of horror
The drops of tears
And sickly cares
In African children
Will vanish then
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,883 |
Words | 311 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 62 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted by niyigabamanzifabrice on July 13, 2021
Modified on April 14, 2023
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