Not A Country, Not A Home. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDED FBFBF CDED GBGBG CDED HBHBI CDED ABABA CDED JJ KA JJ| There was a country | A |
| I used to know | B |
| Full of sweet bounty | A |
| To basic amenities government dare not say No | B |
| I wept in agony as our country is no more the land of plenty | A |
| - | |
| I cried in my room | C |
| I searched through the storm | D |
| I pensively call on you all | E |
| To ask Oh Giant of Africa where is our norm | D |
| - | |
| There was a culture | F |
| I used to know | B |
| Where males and females grow by nurture | F |
| To know and perform their roles without grudges or saying No | B |
| I wept in agony as our culture is derailed by civilization and nature | F |
| - | |
| I cried in my room | C |
| I searched through the storm | D |
| I pensively call on you all | E |
| To ask Oh Giant of Africa where is our norm | D |
| - | |
| There was a government | G |
| I used to know | B |
| That gives the masses pipe borne water sound education power and enlightenment | G |
| To masses core needs government dare not say No | B |
| I wept in agony as youths and less privileged are turned to living corpse lacking empowerment | G |
| - | |
| I cried in my room | C |
| I searched through the storm | D |
| I pensively call on you all | E |
| To ask Oh Giant of Africa where is our norm | D |
| - | |
| There was a Love | H |
| I used to know | B |
| Where Boko haram never existed to affect our life of a dove | H |
| A love where Abubakar married Titi and Obasanjo wedded Stella without both parents saying No | B |
| I wept in agony as Love is now shattered to be wicked tough and rough | I |
| - | |
| I cried in my room | C |
| I searched through the storm | D |
| I pensively call on you all | E |
| To ask Oh Giant of Africa where is our norm | D |
| - | |
| There was a family | A |
| I used to know | B |
| Where every young girl can cook deliciously | A |
| Raising a godly home where to a blissful marriage no one dare say No | B |
| I wept in agony handling so many divorce cases with today's family no longer living happily | A |
| - | |
| I cried in my room | C |
| I searched through the storm | D |
| I pensively call on you all | E |
| To ask Oh Giant of Africa where is our norm | D |
| - | |
| I am neither a man nor a wife | J |
| Living in my country's ordained life | J |
| - | |
| The country is so corruptly rotten | K |
| Leaving the mind of the masses so dirty | A |
| - | |
| I am neither a man nor a wife | J |
| Living in my country's ordained life | J |
Fatoki, Oluwatobi O.
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