Conniving rogues plague the land
Causing commotion that shames the land
Saintly men grace the land
Restoring order which raise the land



Thieving churches reaps the poor
Causing tears to taint the poor
Bloodthirsty mosques brainwash the poor
Causing blood to stain the poor



Greedy politicians lie to the people
Causing poverty to embrace the people
Incompetent technocrats shun the people
Causing stagnation to smile at the people



Women of easy virtue smile at the masses
Making frustration flee from the masses
Women of substance mock the masses
Making frustration laugh at the masses



Professional landlords feed on their tenants
Causing hardship to visit their tenants
Well meaning caretakers smile at tenants
Just so they can reap off the tenants



The people of Nigeria lie to Nigeria
Using religion/tribalism to further lie to Nigeria
Causing us to be where we are in Nigeria
For such is everyday life Nigeria

ANALYSIS OF THE POEM



BACKGROUND: The poem is base on a particular set of people from different works of life, who occupy the geographical territory call Nigeria.

It also tells the everyday life of this set of people, who come from different tribe, religious and ethnic background, how they earn their living via lies, mockery and deceit.


PLOT: The plot of the poem revolve around members of the elite and to a lesser extent, non elite, how they embark on the get 'rich mentality' using all manner of things to achieve this, never minding about virtue or morality, just as long as they get what they want, even if it mean, selling their soul or their body.


STRUCTURE: The poem is a six stanza poem with a total of twenty four lines, written in quatrain form. The poem also utilize flee flowing rhyme. The poem also has a rhyme scheme of AAAA, BBBB, CCCC, DDDD etc.


POETIC DEVICE:


Parallelism: Used in stanza 1, lines 1 and 4.

Metonymy: Used in lines 6 and 7 in stanza 2, used to refer to pastors and imams.

Personification: Used in stanza 3, line 10 and 12,

Euphemism: Used in stanza 4 line 13 and stanza 5 lines 17 and 19.

Metaphor: As used in line 15, stanza 4, and also line 19 stanza 5.

Understatement: Used in stanza 6 line 21, "the people of Nigeria lie to Nigeria".

Emjambment: As seen in all the stanzas and lines throughout the poem.

Epiphora: Used at the end of every line in the poem

THEME:

Greed
Selfishness
Lack of moral
Lack of empathy

This guy is funny shaaa
I like the techocrat part

Incompetent technocrat shun the people
Causing lie mohamadu to lie to the people
While stagnation is now killing us

Nigeria my country
My land of milk and honey
I will not forsake or abandon my strugle for survival ,in this land I must rise

Trade mark your poem if not mushin will print it on sale

akudinaobi:
Trade mark your poem if not mushin will print it on sale

Its already copyrighted. Thanks for your advice though.

Hmmm

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Speechless. ..

Nice peom

Ok

I just want to ask.
How many New Year Resolutions have you broken already?

Ok o

I go use am form song, tanx op, leme go and see my keyboardist
Kidding o no fear back to back hit

Nice

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I catch you

Intellectually stimulating threads like this you won't find the following;

First to comment Crew
Leave trash for LAWMA Crew
End Time Things Crew
The Tribal Warlords

I just heard my name

My own care taker is very harsh ooo, we're even planning on relocating

Typing....


Pls pls pls OP, I will not take this...

What ...I mean, what is all dis kwanu?

I need an antidotal poem to this ode

bookin

C-

Nice........this is so true

Extremely fascinating

Wonderful

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end time people of Nigeria

Cool

joseph1832:
ANALYSIS OF THE POEM



BACKGROUND: The poem is base on a particular set of people from different works of life, who occupy the geographical territory call Nigeria.

It also tells the everyday life of this set of people, who come from different tribe, religious and ethnic background, how they earn their living via lies, mockery and deceit.


PLOT: The plot of the poem revolve around members of the elite and to a lesser extent, non elite, how they embark on the get 'rich mentality' using all manner of things to achieve this, never minding about virtue or morality, just as long as they get what they want, even if it mean, selling their soul or their body.


STRUCTURE: The poem is a six stanza poem with a total of twenty four lines, written in quatrain form. The poem also utilize flee flowing rhyme. The poem also has a rhyme scheme of AAAA, BBBB, CCCC, DDDD etc.


POETIC DEVICE:


Parallelism: Used in stanza 1, lines 1 and 4.

Metonymy: Used in lines 6 and 7 in stanza 2, used to refer to pastors and imams.

Personification: Used in stanza 3, line 10 and 12,

Euphemism: Used in stanza 4 line 13 and stanza 5 lines 17 and 19.

Metaphor: As used in line 15, stanza 4, and also line 19 stanza 5.

Understatement: Used in stanza 6 line 21, "the people of Nigeria lie to Nigeria".

Emjambment: As seen in all the stanzas and lines throughout the poem.


THEME:

Greed
Selfishness
Lack of moral
Lack of empathy

Literary Appreciation. A Levels Literature In English.. Federal School of Arts & Science Victoria Island. God Bless Ms Vaughn