Nigeria The Sleeping Giant Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABBCDCEFGHIHJKDL| Wake up Nigeria whilst it is still day | A |
| Your darkness thickens in the hot summer sun | B |
| Wake up Nigeria from your spectators' fun | B |
| Like a titan to the slaughter your way | A |
| to financial hades might be certain | B |
| Awake or your future is uncertain | B |
| Your teeming youth population languish | C |
| in persistent erosive social crimes | D |
| Awake Nigeria from pain and anguish | C |
| Your tragedies exceed your countless births | E |
| Awake Nigeria for these many deaths | F |
| reveal a corrupt weakened armed forces | G |
| Awake Nigeria from your great slumber | H |
| Your rank in the black world has been usurped | I |
| Awake Nigeria reclaim your number | H |
| one position by treading those courses | J |
| once trod and never again to be stopped | K |
| Awake Nigeria and discern the times | D |
| Cease for good to be black gold dependent | L |
Joseph Ogbonna
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 08/08/2021
Poet's note: A poem about my country Nigeria
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