Death Why Dost Thou Kill The Youngst? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAADEF AAAEGHIJ KLAMNOAA PAGQRQSE OJTUOVJQ WHOXOJYO ZA2HOB2OAO AOAC2QAAA OOD2C2D2OC2O| The 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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