Analysis of Fire White

Kubor Dietei Gimeoin 1990 (Port Harcourt)



The sun has gone down after the booming sound,
it has left us a cloud with no thunderlight.

Ebimobowei whose face is like liquid black gold
is in the fortress of angry spirits cooking crude oil...

Someone is being rushed to Chapros Clinic,
someone whose heart has won all...

Women could no longer allow hands down;
They carry them on their heads like headpans

The men are like coiled cobra whose head is bowed in its body.

Something heavy has waged war upon us,
something that has made our women forget loosed wrappers,
something that has feet unfit for shoes.

Does black turn white?
it does, when it is ripped off its root

Ebimobowei is no longer black after the boom;
He is fire white and fire red like a roasted prawn.

We can not tell if the cauldron was set ablaze by the angry bush
or if it was fired by greedy bunkers, that we can not tell.

But what could have inspired him to place his left ear
on a boiling cauldron if not sei spirit sent to do mischief?
Or could it be carelessness setting him off his feet?

We are not them that give ad-lib commentary,
Nothing comes out but tears that beat the ears...

Chapros Clinic is full of runs,
of silent screams and scattered hums.

Something worrisome is heard,
something like rumbling thunder,
something that has left us rolling on the ground,
something that has left us mourning for three mornings
And a night for poignant steps.


Scheme AA XX XX XB C BBB XX XX XX XXX CB BB XXABB
Poetic Form
Metre 01111100101 111101111 111111011 10010110101011 111011110 111111 1011100111 110111111 011111011110110 1010111011 10111101001110 101110111 1111 111111111 1111011001 11101010110101 11111010110110101 1111101101011111 1111010111111 1010101111011110 1111100101111 11111111100 1011111101 1101111 11010101 1010011 10110010 10111110101 101111101110 0011101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,393
Words 288
Sentences 13
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 3, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 5
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 84
Words per stanza (avg) 19

About this poem

I wrote this elegy after a bunkering incident. It was the first time I saw fire victims.

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Written on August 20, 2022

Submitted by Kudietei on October 11, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:26 min read
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Kubor Dietei Gimeoin

I am the sixth child of seven. I grew up in Lobia, a riverine village where our rivers and lands are degraded. This reality is what made me a poet. I have written several unpublished poems. more…

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