Heritage Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GH II JK LL MM NO PQ RR AA SS TU V| How much significance could there be | A |
| In Heritage Day for you and me | A |
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| What is the footprint of our race | B |
| What is the origin that we face | B |
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| Was there a ruler king or chief | C |
| Who had a reign however brief | C |
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| What was our historical background | D |
| Where exactly can it be found | D |
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| Our ancestral lineage never provided | E |
| A people so diverse and divided | E |
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| Traditions and customs adopted from others | F |
| Who are we my sisters and brothers | F |
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| Hottentot Bushmen or Koi san | G |
| This is where it's said we come from | H |
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| None of them were able to stand | I |
| For their acres or their land | I |
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| A people always caught in between | J |
| A racial divide or so it may seem | K |
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| So this year on Heritage Day | L |
| Let the past be what it may | L |
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| It won't determine what we decide | M |
| We're moving forward with absolute pride | M |
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| As a people let us chose | N |
| An uncertain pass is just no excuse | O |
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| This is what we witness now | P |
| We will not answer to Amalawu | Q |
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| The genetic joining of black and white | R |
| Created a culture that just might | R |
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| Set the pace for all to see | A |
| Discarding the past sets us free | A |
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| In a Constitutional dispensation | S |
| Free from divide and demarcation | S |
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| Building future success and prestige | T |
| Is how we honour our heritage | U |
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| By | - |
| Crystal Koen | V |
Crystal Koen
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