Analysis of EVILS OF THE LOST AGE



Why? How?
Why what? How could?
What a delusion!
How could they have… left us?
With such heritage
What was their thought?
How could they have … believed?
That the blood of innocent strangers
Will set them free from the snares of
The mute and important gods
To which they have pledged
Their loyalty in captivity
What a crime against humanity
How could they have …..
Bought and sold in exchange
For wealth and power
Fellow- like- beings
Tagged them slaves and treated them
Like animals of the wild
What a shock!
How callous!
To bury slaves and butlers alive
Refined gold and velvet
Horses and lots of money
Alongside the corpse of a monarch
What a mischief ……
How could they have ignored ……
Such a chronological error
What a price we paid
How splendid a pride to demonstrate
To have elapse this whole fallacy
Called tradition.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11 1111 10010 111111 11100 1111 111101 101110010 11111011 0100101 11111 110000100 101010100 1111 101001 11010 10110 1110101 1100101 101 110 110101001 011010 1001110 01101101 1010 111101 10010010 10111 11001110 110111100 1010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 807
Words 148
Sentences 12
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 32
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 654
Words per stanza (avg) 148
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Written on February 07, 2003

Submitted by olusesan_a on August 16, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Olusesan Adesanya

Olusesan Adesanya is a Nigerian poet and data analyst, a football enthusiast, his works includes; Life, Remuneration, Frills of 21st century, Evils of the lost age, and The Score. more…

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