Analysis of HERE COMES THE SEASON

Ishak Alhassan 1990 (Kurgwi, Plateau State.)



HERE COMES THE SEASON

Here comes the season.

Here comes the season when see them anew.

Cajoling and seeking for our votes not our view.

Holding clandestine meeting like a nocturnal shrew.

In the raindrops or in an overwhelming dew.

Canvassing for majority votes not those of few.

With them banal gifs of less important they strew.

Holding onto false promises as supporting factors or a sinew.

To workers and labourers, increase in the certain amount of their screw.

They seem oblivious of the promises they made while they threw.

Now, while traversing the country not minding to bedew.

Here comes the season.

Here comes the season when we see them flourish.

After the voting, they seem indolent and sluggish.

Reverting to their old tactics which is to loot and to demolish.

Our commonwealth, and force millions to perish.

Under the grip of unnatural penury without a single dish.

Here comes the season.

Here comes the season when we see them anew.


Scheme A A b b x b b b a b b x A c c c c c A b
Poetic Form
Metre 11010 11010 1101011101 01001011011101 1001010100101 0011010101 1001010011111 110111101011 10101100101010101 1100101001001111 1101001010011111 1101001011011 11010 11010111110 1001011100010 01011110111101010 10100110110 100110100100010101 11010 11010111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 966
Words 199
Sentences 19
Stanzas 20
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 38
Words per stanza (avg) 8

About this poem

It talks about politics and politicians who abandoned their constituents after election. They would never return until when election season comes over again with false promises.

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Written on March 31, 2024

Submitted by alhassan_i on March 31, 2024

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Ishak Alhassan

B. (Ed) French holder, 34 year old and married with three children. more…

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