The North Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHHIJ CKHJLMNO HPHHHCQThe North | A |
The great giant | B |
Expanse of land | C |
Spreading to East and West | D |
Beautiful and green | E |
Undulating | F |
With mountains and valleys | G |
Fresh with rivers and brooks | H |
Holding forth myriads of ethnicities | H |
Of cultures diverse and rich | I |
Producing ebullient men and women | J |
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The great land | C |
Has been laid waste | K |
By infidels and marauders | H |
Barbarism is their religion | J |
Their god has no other pleasure | L |
Safe making sport with human life | M |
His meat is human flesh | N |
And wine human blood | O |
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The giant lies comatose | H |
Flat on its tummy | P |
Laid waste by sons and daughters | H |
That brought devilish foreigners | H |
With neither conscience nor the milk of human kindness | H |
To lay siege on their homeland | C |
As if they had another elsewhere | Q |
Emmanuel Inya Otu-nwachi
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 12/04/2020
Poet's note: The northern part of Nigeria has the largest landmass when compared with the East and West, and was known for the production of cash and food crops. Cash crops like groundnut and cotton were exported abroad and earned the region and the entire cointry foreign exchange before the country abandoned agriculture as a result of the discovery of crude oil. It has deposits of minerals like gold, beryte, tin, iron ore etc. However, a few years back a terrorist group known as Boko Haram sprang up in the Northeast and life has never been the same. The North has become a killing field and life is worth nothing. The poem celebrates the North but decries the unnecessary killings taking place.
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