Analysis of ANGER OF MY POEM
ANGER OF MY PEN*
The precious land of jewels
Such was our land, our world
Where fishes jump off river
Sighting the hook-earthworm
Birds sing while trees clap
Cow plough farm
And human plants crops
Diversity in relativity
Joined by the unknown
Strange to others culture
Misconstrued believe
Politically brain-washed
Yet there we hung still
The desire to make it work
The efforts of the youths
Misplaced priorities
Sold out judges
Pimp legislators, all abides
Philosophy over Ideology
Supremacy over Democracy
Mediocrity over meritocracy
We lost with inconsistency
It's still our mothers land
Now my pen spite venoms
Its tears - blood
My hand...weak to write
From extremism to terrorism
Beef of farmers and herders
Tribes against tribes
Homes burnt
Blood on farmland
Reprisal attacks
To civil unrest...
Lack of human right activist
The voice in the wilderness
To the Fear of the unknown
Reminiscing...
Our uncircumcised unity
The call for a change
Change in leadership
The dawn...
A Messiah
One with military mentality
One who's senility is odd
Yet willing to knock sense
Into contumacious heads
And whipping all into sense
A kind bully
The prophets short-sighted
If not, how did we get here?
How do we blame the gods?
Things indeed falls apart
Who can mend the center?
I cry for the toddlers
For the unborn
Our tomorrow's story tellers
For me...
Let's wait upon hope
Sure, history will be told.
Either with Laughs
Or wailings...
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111 0101110 11101101 1101110 10011 11111 111 01011 010000100 11001 111010 0101 0100011 11111 00101111 010101 010100 1110 1100101 0100100100 0100100100 01001000100 1110100 1110101 11111 111 1111 11001100 1110010 1011 11 111 01001 11001 11101100 0100100 1011001 010 101100 01101 1010 01 0010 111000100 11010011 110111 0111 0101011 0110 010110 1111111 111101 101101 111010 111010 1011 10011010 11 11011 1100111 1011 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,372 |
Words | 239 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 7, 6, 5, 4, 1, 3, 7, 3, 4, 8, 8, 5 |
Lines Amount | 62 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
June 12 1993 is a date engraved in the heart of all Nigerian. The day that true democracy was murdered. This poem was written to lament the derailing political umpire of Nigeria state and it's state of insecurity. A pure state of agony brought about by the ruling class and the political elites...The lonely voice in the wilderness is the vexation of the pen..my poem.
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Written on February 09, 2202
Submitted by Markstanley on September 07, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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