Marauders I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEBB BBFGBBBBHI| We planted | A |
| Didn't harvest | B |
| We laboured | B |
| All in vain | C |
| We daren't go | D |
| To our farms | E |
| The marauders laid waste | B |
| Our lands eating up the yield | B |
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| We laboured | B |
| Thinking at harvest | B |
| We'll reap abundance | F |
| God having blessed us | G |
| Showers making the land | B |
| Green with crops just | B |
| Before the harvest | B |
| The evil men swarmed | B |
| On us like locusts | H |
| Devouring the fruits of our labour | I |
Emmanuel Inya Otu-nwachi
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Poet's note: The expectation of every farmer is to reap a bountiful harvest. However, in many Nigerian communities in recent years it is not the case. Farmers plant but don't reap because Fulani herdsmen take their cattle into farms and destroy the crops. At the end of the season the farmers have nothing to harvest because the crops have been eaten up by the cows. The poem descries this.
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