Lamentations Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCCCDEDEFCFCCDCD CGCGFHFHIJIKLMLNODOD PQCCDD| Not the dead or lost I revile | A |
| That I lament and mourn sore | B |
| Neither regret him gone to exile | A |
| This sun I shall see no more | B |
| Do I cry for and show pities | C |
| I groan for the land and sea | C |
| Kingdoms nations and great cities | C |
| In dirts I spue and wallow as he | C |
| Overwhelmed by wine and knows nuffin | D |
| Even as bitter as a man would wail | E |
| Upon her lover laying in coffin | D |
| The pain like my foot ceiled anail | E |
| Woe to you priests yet to come | F |
| For temples are polluted with vices | C |
| Prophets craft dreams deception of some | F |
| They deceive seeing nothing divining lies | C |
| Whilst I weep its because of thee | C |
| O ye maidens and maids not born | D |
| For the evils your eyes shall see | C |
| The land which you would tread upon | D |
| Is spoiled with lewdness and nudity | C |
| Where they shall press your breast | G |
| To bruise you of your virginity | C |
| Hew you down as twigs from its crest | G |
| Do not come do not come | F |
| I will do these things for you | H |
| Men full of great shrewd and wisdom | F |
| Thus write much books or few | H |
| Your wits would naught bring | I |
| And your discovery be laughed at | J |
| Come not with summer nor the spring | I |
| Go you other world divert your path | K |
| Serpents wolfs the land is not save | L |
| Mankind shall spike you as vampire | M |
| Stoning you to bare bed of grave | L |
| Cease burn you up with fire | N |
| Have you not heard or been told | O |
| Worse which silent ones have seen | D |
| Those buried beneath belly of sandcold | O |
| O hide till every chapts turn green | D |
| Till the blue heaven yield black | P |
| And stars give no lit but dark | Q |
| I Know not why I lament for thee | C |
| My burdens beas that set for conceived donkey | C |
| And like from my heart its flesh is torn | D |
| Although I shall receive no thing in return | D |
Adebayo Sir Toby
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