ODE TO OMOBEWAJI ADEMOLA DASYLVA
Rising like the sons of the morning stars
Orator that spins words like the spiders
The morphosyntactic laureate
Of African universe
Bitter leaf is the king of
All leaves in the forest
You are a king of words
In the theatre of the poets
Omobewaji Ademola Dalysva, a short man
That commands a tall man to halt
Odamalugbe, the talking drum of the wise
And a giant in the world
Of the intellectuals.
About this poem
It is a eulogy to a great poet and academic mentor
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Written on October 17, 2022
Submitted by ID on October 17, 2022
Modified on March 21, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLM |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 740 |
Words | 74 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
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