Mouth Won't Be Shut Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC ADBEEFGE AHDIJC AKLMNMOPC AQOEORSGBGTA AUEVWDGXA AETUGVE ATYHGBA| My mouth won t be shut | A |
| Seriously I can t shut up my mouth | B |
| The more you force me to is the more my actions will support it | C |
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| My mouth won t be shut | A |
| I can t shut up my mouth on the matters that matter | D |
| Oppression can t zip up my mouth | B |
| Tormenting and pinning of my rights have no power to silence me | E |
| I will always vomit nothing but the verity | E |
| I don t care if that leads to death | F |
| But what s the importance of living longer with no positive impression | G |
| I would rather die earlier after impacting the globe than becoming useless granny | E |
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| My mouth won t be shut | A |
| I can t shut up my mouth when girl child is raped in anterior of my eyes | H |
| I can t keep quite watching her stagger | D |
| I can t allow her bright future get roasted like maize | I |
| You may not criticize rape on reasons best known to yourself | J |
| But with all my voice I say NO to it | C |
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| My mouth won t be shut | A |
| I can t shut up my mouth when nepotism is deep rooted in this village | K |
| Did you know | L |
| Nepotism is the enemy of peace | M |
| And where there s no peace development can t exist | N |
| How can we move forward if we denounce peace | M |
| Where will nepotism take us to | O |
| If you close your ears I will send you a letter condemning nepotism | P |
| You must stop it | C |
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| My mouth won t be shut | A |
| I always get out of my chipiloni blanket before dawn | Q |
| Tilling the soil is what I do | O |
| This is because begging isn t my priority | E |
| Cause and effect is what I value | O |
| For there s no food for a lazy man | R |
| Instead of my kids benefiting from my sweat | S |
| Someone with a berry like calabash pockets my token | G |
| I can t shut up my mouth | B |
| I am not against taxation for my name is Responsible Citizen | G |
| Anomalous taxation is killing us | T |
| This is why my mouth won t be shut | A |
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| My mouth won t be shut | A |
| I can t shut up my mouth when corruption has married our leaders | U |
| We are tired of feeding their baby named poverty | E |
| For how long should we tolerate these marriages that give birth to trouble | V |
| It s ungodly to seek divorce but just for these marriages | W |
| I don t care to be called a sinner | D |
| As long as our leaders break up with corruption | G |
| And have the baby poverty dead | X |
| Then my mouth will be shut | A |
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| My mouth won t be shut | A |
| I can t shut up my mouth when disarray has displaced unity | E |
| How can I keep quite when prejudice has swallowed justice | T |
| It s totally unfair more than unfair to watch bad manners | U |
| Fighting against evil isn t an option | G |
| Everyone with a reasoning brain must fight against the evil | V |
| Let everyone shout against immorality | E |
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| My mouth won t be shut | A |
| I will always speak out against any malpractice | T |
| I will always speak out applauding progress | Y |
| When one wrongs my mouth must criticize | H |
| When one does well my mouth must say well done | G |
| I have no reason to shut up my mouth | B |
| My mouth won t be shut | A |
Blessed-grant Rodi
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 10/25/2020
Poet's note: I wrote this poem in 2019 April for Africans who suffer oppression by their leaders. I stress that there's no need to remain quite if you feel that someone is oppressing you
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