What's Their Plan? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJKLLM NLOOO BLPOO| What's their plan | A |
| Sure they've nothing | B |
| Hidden in their hearts | C |
| That make them so bold | D |
| And take us for granted | E |
| - | |
| Yet we like fools | F |
| Join to plunder | G |
| The fatherland like we've gotten another place | H |
| The problem with us | I |
| Is that we allow ourselves | J |
| To be hoodwinked with sentiments | K |
| Tribe and religion and unwittingly | L |
| Give the enemies opportunity | L |
| To rape and plunder our fatherland | M |
| - | |
| Closing our eyes blocking our ears | N |
| To the atrocities they daily | L |
| Commit in the land blocking out | O |
| The sounds of dissent and discontentment | O |
| Coming from the very soul of the land | O |
| - | |
| This ship is sinking | B |
| Our differences we ought to bury | L |
| To prevent the slide to oblivion | P |
| Or else we'll all be buried | O |
| Beneath the rubble and waste | O |
Emmanuel Inya Otu-nwachi
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Poet's note: The Nigerian state has been undergoing a lot of crises occasioned by bad governance. Policies are made without regards to the welfare and wellbeing of Nigerians who are suffering untold hardship. The poem continues the spirit of the poet's poem "Nigeria is finished!" In it the poet believes the leaders have a hidden plan to destroy the country and thinks the masses are helping to destroy the country by allowing religion and tribe to divide them.
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