Analysis of A CLARION CALL
JONATHAN EIDANGBE 1981 (Ibadan)
A clarion call
For Patriots, with rallying haste
A match adorn with no frail
Carved by dedication and selflessness
To our motherland and pride!
Its a rallying call
To hoist our identity
Not towards ruin, I recalled
For this is our tale
A narration of guide into epic drop.
As comrades, into troops
Under "the sun and in the rain"
"To defend our unity", was the hack
Unhinged, we matched against tides
But fell like tattered banner.
Like mammoth, in numbers
We peeled nature's strength
And unearth its milk, as plunders
For aggrandizement and accolades
We enlisted lust and sacrilage.
An epoch of melancholy
Lamentation from enslaved ambitions
Of visions, taunted and maimed
By our choices and their promises
What a call! with paths of regrets and shame.
Scheme | AXBCX ADXBX XXXXX XXCXX DXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001 110011001 0101111 110100100 1101001 101001 11100100 10110101 111101 00101101101 11011 10010001 10110100101 0111011 1111010 110010 11101 0011111 1100010 1010101 1101100 1101010 1101001 1101001100 1011110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 757 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
About this poem
A narrative poem about Nigeria (My Country) for the Anniversary of her Independence.
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