Analysis of Morning bread
This road often travelled
In every four years
Have paths paved
With hunger, starvation, misery, terrorism
And instability
Hunger comfortably
Made fasting a daily routine
Driving poor stomach
To an indefinite strike
Starvation is a willing bedmate
A constant reminder
Of the journey so far
Misery on the other hand
Have castrated the once invective brain
Rendering viable ideas, impotent
Terrorism is a festering wound that
Pioneered bandits, killer herdsmen, kidnappers
And instability, the hallmarks of corruption
Is political, social, economic
All along ethic and tribal lines
It's only people of the road
That can explicate the inner turmoil
I'm promised clothes by nakedness
You were there
Stifling laughter of sorts
Buying conscience
With the Naira, indifferent
We are not greedy
All we ask
Is our morning bread
The road less travelled
Wrought with possible change,
Unfamiliar scenery, unexpected outcomes
And fear of the unknown nationalist
A chance venture, maybe
Man, you are out of your mind
But not greedy
All we want
Is our morning bread
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 010011 111 110010100100 00100 101000 11001001 10110 1101001 01010101 010010 101011 10010101 110010101 100100010100 1001010011 0110101010 00100011010 1010010010 101100101 11010101 11100101 110111 101 101011 1010 1010010 11110 111 110101 01110 111001 0101000101 0110011000 011010 1111111 1110 111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,049 |
Words | 169 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 30, 9 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 433 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
About this poem
The Nigerian system is enmeshed in corruption, mismanagement and bad governance leading to misery of many which in turn shaped the moral, economic and political landscape of the nation. The political class are afraid to embrace change of any form thereby maintaining a status quo.
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