Analysis of NEVER TAMPER OUR JOY
CHINELO cried on Monday,
EAGLES lost on Tuesday.
Those who beat CHINELO witch
murdered the EAGLES hope
the following day?
Stiffled by the heat
of their own rage,
Our youth pointed fingers at our man
and left his stadium in total ruins.
Maybe MKO was at fault!
The PRESIDENT was
with the victims of the train.
BABA had no time
to call the SUPER EAGLES.
But who could have thought
of another HOME LOSS
when ABUJA-KADUNA attack
had already taken many lives?
We all knew
GHANA had to GO
But the big men ensured
GHANA had a GOAL.
The MEN TEAM are to blame
for inciting this CIVIL WAR.
FOOTBALL GAMES
mean more than our lives:
You can cut us
with the machete of fuel scarcity.
You can drag us deeper
into darkness for days.
But please,
do not lose a game on our soil,
for angry blood runs through our vein.
Scheme | AA XXX XX XX X XB XX XXXC XX XX XX XC XA XX XX B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 101110 11111 100101 01001 1101 1111 10110101101 01110001010 101111 0101 1010101 10111 1101010 11111 101011 11101 101010101 111 10111 101101 10101 011111 10101101 11 111101 1111 1001110100 111110 011011 11 111011101 110111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 852 |
Words | 190 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
About this poem
This poem is a melancholic poem that talks more about the cluelessness of Nigeria government towards sport and people's affairs. It satirically examine how worst a presidential call could be when his countryside team is trying to perform in a competition.
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