Analysis of Are You Traveling to Oron
Are you traveling to Oron to be lost
In the mysteries and secrets of Ekpe, the Bermuda triangle
lban Isong, a land deeply rooted in the ocean
With queen of the coast, daughters of mermaid
Of the marine race inhabit this town
A man who visits Oron may never return again
He's forever lost, lost to his lust
The care and beauty of Oron woman hold him captive
Blinded by love
He may never find his way back
As you look at the beauty of Oron woman, you're mesmerized
Her long hair stretches, dangles at the rhythmic witness of her hips
As she passes by, rosy cheeks cover her face
Her gray eyes with fleck of gold and brown
Shines like the eyes of a pussycat,
with long lashes that often winks at your stare
Oron woman is elegant and graceful
Rich in jewelry and accessories
Her barn full of yams, cassava and dried fish
And she knows how to please a man
And make him stay awake all night
Eating hot yam with pepper soup
Oron woman make the best cook
When she prepares Otong
with fresh fish, periwinkle and Iwe Ekpang
Boiled with water from Effiat-mbo river
The aroma so irresistible and beckons
That when a man eats, his head is captured forever
Oron woman can go all the way to trap a man
And tie him down in her own house, on her bed
Not even the priest of the earth can set him free
Nor loose him from the bondage of love
For the man has been immersed in her cauldron, trapped forever
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110011111 0010001011001010 110110100010 111011011 1001101011 0111011100101 101011111 0101011101110 1011 11101111 11110101110110 0111010101010101 111011011001 011111101 11011010 11101101111 1101100010 1010000100 011111011 01111101 01110111 10111101 1101011 11011 1111011 111011110 001010100010 1101111110010 110111011101 01110011101 110011011111 111101011 101110100101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,393 |
Words | 275 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
About this poem
This poem is from my fictional perceptions of Oron women and are not based on true story. As a salesman, years ago, we were warned of the secret societies in Oron land: Ekpe, Abang, Ukpok lban Isong... mostly women cults rooted from the marine, said to entrap men, use their semen for wealth rituals and turn them into nincompoops. I have been to Oron severally and I think some of these stories were a bit exaggerated.
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