Death Why Dost Thou Kill The Youngst? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAADEF AAAEGHIJ KLAMNOAA PAGQRQSE OJTUOVJQ WHOXOJYO ZA2HOB2OAO AOAC2QAAA OOD2C2D2OC2OThe grey are borers | A |
Who suck the life remnant | B |
Of the youngst and watch | C |
Them clash cycles on the highways | A |
And gaze at them in long woods | A |
Laid upon shoulders to where they | D |
Are matched beyond with only | E |
One possession of the world | F |
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The gray who sit on cloth sacks | A |
Trampling the world on three legs | A |
Who match with our hands | A |
Entwined into their rusky bony | E |
Sides of no earthly flesh | G |
Who lie on strong beds awaiting | H |
Our most pampering care | I |
That suck many a number to depression | J |
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Why dosth thou the gray not bow to earth | K |
If you have not paid death | L |
Your good friend with our lives | A |
When you have feasted him | M |
On the dinning table | N |
Where you spill our blood | O |
To dwell gain in hundred folds | A |
And the youngst in twenties | A |
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When hath the death who hath | P |
All year long lurked in woods | A |
Disembodied ever full of flesh | G |
When you with no heart on | Q |
Would still boldly take mine | R |
And leave agots upon | Q |
A feast upon the body after which | S |
They still partake of its glory | E |
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Death why dosth thou kill the youngst | O |
If you have not accepted the token | J |
From our gray who dined you | T |
On our toils and fed you on our | U |
Flesh and bath you in our blood | O |
And lay you upon our hearts of | V |
Tremendous facilitation | J |
Which our very lives dwell on | Q |
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You hath seen the youngst in toil | W |
Where they suffer to gain a living | H |
You had not for once helped out | O |
When even on sick beds still | X |
They moil to survive a day | O |
Through the four walls of education | J |
You had with your bold eyes seen | Y |
But had given no helping hand | O |
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Then why do thou | Z |
Take them away when they triumph | A2 |
when with their gowns overflowing | H |
with a cap hanging above their head | O |
and in rows snapshots of joy | B2 |
when they had worked files in hand | O |
and settled in offices | A |
you became a visitor on barefoot | O |
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you laid traps on highways | A |
waiting them to fall prey | O |
for the next feasting in the woods | A |
where he shall stiff lie | C2 |
in woods and be trodden upon | Q |
deep cries and wails | A |
and wives on whites | A |
and husbands on whites | A |
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and death so kind that | O |
The young have grown so old | O |
And the old grown so young | D2 |
That I myself don t know where I lie | C2 |
Whether I grow so old or young | D2 |
Sure I still pay the debt | O |
Cause even the gray die | C2 |
And death takes back hand | O |
Benjamin Chikezie
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