When I Die Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDFE AGGGCH ADIJKC LMNM AOLPQP IRSQQ| When I die let no one cry | A |
| Let no one plant flowers by my graveyard | B |
| For they didn't bring me the flowers when I was alive | C |
| Let not relatives compete to buy me a casket | D |
| For they didn't even bother to know how I was fairing | E |
| Let my mum buy me the casket | D |
| For she is the only one who bothered | F |
| To know how her stubborn daughter was fairing | E |
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| When I die | A |
| Let no one struggle to tell people how good I was | G |
| How beautiful and loveable I was | G |
| How meaningful I was | G |
| Because no one uttered such when I was alive | C |
| All that would be a waste of time | H |
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| When I die | A |
| And it happens that mum cannot afford the casket | D |
| Please put me in the soil | I |
| Dressed in my day to day rags | J |
| Don't you dare dress me in a gown | K |
| For I never had it when I am alive | C |
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| Don't bother people to come for my burial | L |
| For I didn't mean anything to them | M |
| And if I did then they were not triggered to tell me | N |
| We know the value of things when we have lost them | M |
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| When I die | A |
| People should not contribute any cent | O |
| To buy food for the burial | L |
| Because I died without food | P |
| I died of hunger | Q |
| And no one gave me a cent for food | P |
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| If I befriend the soil | I |
| Let no one weep | R |
| Because it will be of no use | S |
| Let no one sing dirges apart from my mother | Q |
| For I was a jewel to her | Q |
Nyatichi Arriet
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 07/27/2023
Poet's note: After deep thinking, I thought of the day that I will sleep eternally. A lot of people will praise me of how good I was but only one person will be deeply affected, my mother because apart from being her first born child, I am a storey bulding and she is the basement.
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