A New Generation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIEJ KLMBNOHPQ RSTUVWEB| The youths from east to west | A |
| North to south gathered as one | B |
| None remembered they hailed from | C |
| The north or south none thought | D |
| Like Hausa Igbo Yoruba | E |
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| On Friday prayers Christians stood guard | F |
| Over the Moslems to ensure they prayed | G |
| In peace and on the Sunday the Moslems | H |
| Waited on the Christians as they worshipped | I |
| Was it really in Nigeria | E |
| Where the religions are always at daggers drawn | J |
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| The youths raised millions | K |
| To support a groundnut seller not minding | L |
| Her ethnicity nor her religion in only minutes | M |
| They raised over two million | B |
| For a protester that needed artificial legs | N |
| Because they saw the need At Lekki Nationalism woke | O |
| And killed the primordial problems | H |
| Bedeviling us as a people stunting our growth | P |
| Pulling us down as a people | Q |
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| Ethnicity and tribalism | R |
| Sectionalism and religious bigotry | S |
| Corruption bribery and selfishness | T |
| With nepotism all died | U |
| And publicly were buried | V |
| Over their rotten graves rose love and peace | W |
| Unity and the lost hope of a brand new Nigeria | E |
| A transformed generation | B |
Emmanuel Inya Otu-nwachi
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 11/17/2020
Poet's note: In October 2020, there was mass protests all over Nigeria as a result of police brutality especially the squad named Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS for short. The protests later became a movement against bad governance. On October 2020 armed soldiers attacked the protesters at a place called Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos-Nigeria. However, the youths conducted themselves as a people not minding ethnicity or religion. This shows nationalism and patriotism which are lacking in the country. The poem eulogizes this became it showed unity.
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