Analysis of FRAGMENTS
FRAGMENTS
We're the "lords" and "masters"
They're the "servants",
So they said,
And from among us they came
Canvassing for our "thumbs" to serve
A child of our agitation?
They vowed faithfulness, milk and honey
They pledged loyalty, bread and butter
We paused
And like ants we filled out-
Defiling the elements,
Defiling our rumbling and riotous belly
And gave them our 'thumbs' to serve
But how soon they reneged
And they were our members
We sang same sour songs
We ate from same battered plates
We drank from same leaky cups
We slept on same loosening mat
Now we're two parallel lines
See them cruising on exotic wheels
Building castles on the hills
Filling their tables with sumptuous
And surrounding themselves with
But here we are, forsaken
In our huts like hen,
Cattle or sheep confined in the pen
The roof letting in drizzles to a tide
Our tables empty and dry like a smoking
Our sole shoe soles witnesses to scores
of Yuletide
But these Pharoahs
We desire Moses's liberation and
We seek Joshua's lead to Rest.
Scheme | A BA X X C D E XX X A E C X B X X X X X X XX X D F F G X XG X X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10 1 1 101010 1010 111 0101111 100110111 01110010 1111010 111001010 11 011111 10100 110100010010 01110111 111101 0101010 111101 1111101 1111101 11111001 111101 111010101 1010101 10110110 0010011 1111010 010111 101101001 011001101 101010011010 1011110011 11 1 1110 101010100 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,790 |
Words | 278 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 30 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
About this poem
In Nigeria politics has become a lucrative business where those who had nothing before getting into political office suddenly become affluent. They go to the electorates with sugar-coated tongues to seek for votes to "serve"; but in reality their purpose of seeking political office is only to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor masses who continue to hope for a "saviour."
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Written on November 02, 2022
Submitted by Emek on November 02, 2022
Modified on April 03, 2023
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