ARRIVAL OF A STRANGER
HON. CHIBUZO ANIWETALU 1992 (PORTHARCOURT)
Title: ARRIVAL OF A STRANGER
Farmers are wailing.
Fishermen have suddenly grown poor.
Hunters are hungry and hailing.
The games are gone for sure.
Forests turned deserts.
Chrysanthemum, lotus, cactus and daffodils said they (part of line 6)can’t bear it no more.
Graze men have gone crazy in search of vegetation.
There are no ripe fruits for the harvesters.
Famine is a household name in the nation.
Black fume consumes our investors.
And our economy like trees has fallen.
Because global warming just arrived.
Sad notes of melancholy trail and wail from the chirps (part of line 13)of birds,
from long distances far away.
They’re sad because they’ve lost their homes, mothers (part of line 15)and nests to girls,
Who caused logging, and felling, it’s sad to say.
They’re sad because whirlwinds and storms came to (part of line 17)torment them.
They’re sad because they were beaten by acid rains.
Zebras, Buffalos and antelopes were common sights, (part of line 19)yesterday.
But the forests were razed by fire.
And there are no green plants in our farms, today.
Because chemicals like parasites dealt with them in (part of line 22)ways that we can’t admire.
And our soils are no more nutritious.
All because global warming visited us, a while ago.
But we can tell him that he has overstayed his welcome (part of line 25)by dusting off our old bicycles.
But we can chase him away with afforestation, (part of line 26)reforestation and organic farming.
About this poem
The poem is a twenty six line poem on the negative effects of global warming and climate change on agriculture and on human health. The title the Arrival of a Stranger, suggests that global warming is a stranger, which recently appeared in Europe, Asia, America, Africa and other parts of the world. The last two lines of the poem enumerates solutions to negative effects of global warming. The written piece below is a poem of twenty six lines. It comprises of 5 stanzas. The first four stanzas are made of six lines each, with a definite end rhyme pattern of ababcd. The last stanza is made of two concluding lines with end rhymes ef. The last two lines proffers solutions to the problems of global warming. The poem should be read as I describe above. more »
Written on December 29, 2022
Submitted by wayinigerianyouths2020 on December 29, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A BXBXXX CDCDCX XEXEXX EAEXXX XB |
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,489 |
Words | 282 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 6, 6, 2 |
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