Corruption Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EBBF GBBF BBHF BBIB BHEJ KBLH MNBO| We all talk against it | A |
| Make wonderful speeches | B |
| On the necessity to break | C |
| Its yoke and stranglehold | D |
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| Daily we talk | E |
| Of recovered loots | B |
| And daily the recovered loots | B |
| Are relooted by no other | F |
| - | |
| Than those who recovered them | G |
| And we set kangaroo panels | B |
| Upon panels and committees | B |
| Upon committees to recover | F |
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| The recovered loots | B |
| And the vicious cycle goes | B |
| On and on while the nation | H |
| Slides further and further | F |
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| Down the slope into the abyss | B |
| Of poverty and the masses | B |
| Groan under the weight | I |
| Of a bogus leadership that eats | B |
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| And grows fat as the mass | B |
| Of the people shrink with starvation | H |
| We talk | E |
| We decry | J |
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| We probe | K |
| But corruption thrives | B |
| And fights back | L |
| Cos we fight invisible corruption | H |
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| We never fight the corrupt | M |
| Instead the corrupt fight | N |
| Corruption with kid gloves | B |
| And make it resistant | O |
Emmanuel Inya Otu-nwachi
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Poet's note: The poem presents the problem of corruption and inept leadership in Nigeria and why it is difficult to eradicate it in Nigeria.
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