Twenty-twenty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI AJJKLMNNOPPA HKQLKARRSTU KVKKK| Like every other | A |
| It started with fanfare | B |
| With lots of prospects | C |
| The prophets prophesied | D |
| Goodness | E |
| Increase | F |
| Hope | G |
| Transformation | H |
| Year this Year that | I |
| - | |
| Sooner than later | A |
| Before the celebrations ended | J |
| Before the cries of excitement faded | J |
| Covid came uninvited | K |
| Rubbished the predictions of the prophets | L |
| Bringing pain suffering and death in its heels | M |
| Soldiers killed some | N |
| Police killed some | N |
| Those who escaped | O |
| Were killed by diseases | P |
| Those who escaped diseases | P |
| Were killed by hunger | A |
| - | |
| As what was given | H |
| To sustain life were hoarded | K |
| Or sold by greedy politicians | Q |
| Whose constituencies are their pockets | L |
| Soon this sparked off discontentment | K |
| As we were getting over | A |
| The shock of it all the protests began | R |
| Followed by the vandalization | R |
| Sponsored by power brokers | S |
| Just to hang the dog | T |
| By giving it a bad name | U |
| - | |
| Twenty Twenty | K |
| Is the year | V |
| We can't forget | K |
| In a hurry | K |
| For in it we saw hardship personified | K |
Emmanuel Inya Otu-nwachi
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 11/06/2020
Poet's note: The year, 2020 is a year that brought a lot pains and death. In Nigeria, apart apart from the Corona virus pandemic, suffered other ills including police brutality, hunger, herdsmen killings etc. The poem presents the year in the light of the various calamities Nigerians suffered.
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