Analysis of Where are our youths ?
Blood! Blood!! Blood!!!
All see is blood
Stained on our country's flag
Stained on our soil
Still the sacrifice of our heroes past
Has not made a difference
Why did we fight for our independence ? If we can't develop ourselves as a country
Why did our leaders sacrifice so much for us ?
And now we are nowhere to be found
Why the corruption ? Why the war ?
Are we not one Nigeria ?
It seems there's no hope
But there's hope, I can see a glimpse of it
Who will go for us?
Who's ready to fight those sitting on the country's progress ?
No one answers
Everyone is scared
Where are our gallant youths ?
In those days the likes of Nnamdi Azikiwe, Obafemi Awolowo, Tafewa Balewa were top leaders of our great country "Nigeria" in their twenties and thirties are legendary now.
But today our youths have fallen
They've refused to speak up
They've refused to rise up
And then in a twinkle of an eye
I see the youths rising
Saying no to corruption, injustice,bad governance and the likes.
Fighting to vote in right leaders
Then I smiled and said
There's hope once again for Nigeria
Our future is assured
Do you know why ?
It's because "the youths has risen once again"
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Metre | 111 1111 1110101 11101 1010110101 1110100 11111100101110100011010 111010101111 01111111 10010101 11110100 11111 1111110111 11111 1101111010101 1110 1011 1110101 01101111111101101101100100011001011001 101101110 101111 101111 010010111 110110 10110101100001 10110110 11101 1110110100 1010101 1111 10101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,163 |
Words | 227 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 6, 2, 3, 9 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
About this poem
The poem is about the youths standing up to take their future into their own hands and saying no bad governance.
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Written on October 20, 2022
Submitted by soyemfrancisca on October 21, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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