Lamentations @ 60 (nigeria We Hail Thee) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDDF DGDHIJKJED DBLMEN DODJDDPJ DPPPDD DPPEDJDJBDP PBPQI| What manner of child | A |
| still born | B |
| Three score years since that birth | C |
| suckling flattened tithers | D |
| gloating | E |
| in mystique of decadence | D |
| crass of class | D |
| class of babes toddling still | F |
| - | |
| Should I throw you to the wildings | D |
| in oke ofia | G |
| Should I blame the gods | D |
| whose bidding it is to give and take | H |
| That your existence rests on a quota system | I |
| feeding bottle even with grey hair | J |
| infant formulae stifling growth | K |
| merit a seasoner | J |
| one course meal poisoning | E |
| circumstance | D |
| - | |
| O elements of the universe | D |
| nekwa nu nwa unu | B |
| Certainly not of this world | L |
| Take him and do your enchantment | M |
| undo the bewitching | E |
| trade this goblin fit only a gobbling lot | N |
| - | |
| Lo See | D |
| He basks in stunted form | O |
| see his fractured parts | D |
| like oil on water | J |
| parallel line of forced joints | D |
| giant in world of ants | D |
| whose anthills are serially ravaged | P |
| by pangolins in power | J |
| - | |
| Steaky tongues tangoed in treasury | D |
| decades mass of tanglement | P |
| silos once full now emptied | P |
| famished from head to toe | P |
| and we carry the cross | D |
| crown of thorns adorn our wrinkled brows | D |
| - | |
| Can you hear our wailings | D |
| Behold our scorecard | P |
| stockman weaponized | P |
| crimpers prowling round the clock | E |
| pilgrimage of malefactors | D |
| Covid irresistible sucre | J |
| competition of churning numbers | D |
| one Panadol for a few dollars more | J |
| fourteen days of pretentious isolation | B |
| and they bullion their ways to the banks | D |
| One baby bound in freedom peace and unity | P |
| - | |
| O let me lament | P |
| let us merry in this lamentation | B |
| year old toddler toddling to a century | P |
| Let us hip to our hurrayed death | Q |
| and arise to a bounded freedom | I |
Ifeanyichukwu Onwughalu
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Poet's note: It is an anthem of lamentation of a country at 60 years independence.
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