Analysis of Wet

Adjekawen A. Jeremiah 1998 (Delta State, Nigeria)



The ocean is empty
All the water is here
Our homes are empty
All our children have fled.
It rises in frenzy
It frightens my fear
It wipes a world and many,
And even the Devil wept.

Disaster rushes non stop!
Our farmlands are sunk
Our crops are drunk
Too lazy to feed us.

The thunder rumbles
Our stomach grumbles
The market crumbles
Half bread, and not gold!

I dreamt of a swimming pool
It's now in my room
It seems so cool
Did I fall from my bed?

The current a'swift
Fast and furious!
It drove our sucklings to sea,
And mothers asleep from sleep.

It surprised the dead in their peace
It came crawling at their feet
They felt it wet at first
Then, their peace seized!

The birds perches amongst the foliage
I watch the geese on a voyage
Will there ever be land again?
Can someone please explain!


Scheme AXABAXAX XCCD EEEX FXFB XDAX XXXX XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 010110 101011 101110 1101011 110010 11011 1101010 0100101 0101011 10111 10111 110111 01010 101010 01010 11011 1110101 11011 1111 111111 01001 10100 1110111 0100111 10101011 1110111 111111 1111 011001010 11011010 11101101 11101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 800
Words 171
Sentences 11
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 8, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 89
Words per stanza (avg) 22

About this poem

The poem is aimed to portray the plight of humanity during the 2022 flood in Nigeria.

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Written on October 12, 2022

Submitted by jerrylov322 on November 19, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Adjekawen A. Jeremiah

Adjekawen Jeremiah Agberia hails from Ughelli south of Delta State, Nigeria. He is currently studying law at the Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The young poet of Uhrobo origin, who started writing poetry at the age of fifteen, is the firstborn son, amongs three brothers, of a single mother. Works of poetry penned by A.A. Jeremiah (his pen name), are mostly centered around love, romance, politics and betrayal; and, a few, on melancholy and nature. more…

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