Tribute To Africa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDEF AGHIJKL AMNOPNN ANQNNNRS AQTUQQS ANVWDXYDDMAAABBCDDEF ANNINKL AMNSPNN ANQNNNRS AQTUQQS ANVWDXYDDMAA| Oh Mama Africa | A |
| Hear the cry of your people | B |
| For your departure has turned them feeble | B |
| Ignorantly orchestrating your death | C |
| They ve brought pain to their women | D |
| And severe hunger on their children | D |
| They ve caused several mayhem | E |
| And continue to live opposite their anthem | F |
| - | |
| Oh Mama Africa | A |
| You were the most beautiful continent among your peers | G |
| Gifted with every natural and human resource | H |
| Yet with attitude so worse and magnitude | I |
| They ve created jobless teaming youths | J |
| Financial crisis and economic hardship | K |
| So brain drain has been your children s comfort rain | L |
| - | |
| Oh Mama Africa | A |
| Your elected officials ships your glory | M |
| They loot and sail your resources off your shores | N |
| Leaving the motherlands dry | O |
| And the fatherlands deprived | P |
| Than a drunk driver your people also show reckless behaviours | N |
| Living oblivious to rules and regulations | N |
| - | |
| Oh Mama Africa | A |
| They destroy your lands in their selfish pursuits | N |
| And blame slavery for raking your fate | Q |
| They then receive aids in suits and chill in expensive cars and suites | N |
| And turn ballot papers into bullets | N |
| Pouring your blood in the pits of politics | N |
| And tag it a dirty game | R |
| Yet others play it free and fair | S |
| - | |
| Oh Mama Africa | A |
| This shouldn t have been your fate | Q |
| Yet religion and politics has traded your worth | T |
| So all that your children seek for is quick wealth | U |
| Who is to restore your glorious mandate | Q |
| And awaken their mindsets before it s too late | Q |
| Oh African s where s your honour | S |
| - | |
| Oh Mama Africa | A |
| I sit in the ashes of words | N |
| Wearing black on my melanin skin | V |
| Shedding tears of blood | W |
| For a great tree has fallen | D |
| The river that quenched the thirst | X |
| of natives and foreigners has dried | Y |
| Africa the mother to the genesis of creation | D |
| has lost her reputation | D |
| And her children their identity | M |
| Now entombed in prerogatory and stigma | A |
| You ve gone too soon Arise Mama Africa | A |
| Oh Mama Africa | A |
| Hear the cry of your people | B |
| For your departure has turned them feeble | B |
| Ignorantly orchestrating your death | C |
| They ve brought pain to their women | D |
| And severe hunger on their children | D |
| They ve caused several mayhem | E |
| And continue to live opposite their anthem | F |
| - | |
| Oh Mama Africa | A |
| You were the most beautiful continent among your peers | N |
| Gifted with every natural and human resource | N |
| Yet with attitude so worse and magnitude | I |
| They ve created jobless teaming youths | N |
| Financial crisis and economic hardship | K |
| So brain drain has been your children s comfort rain | L |
| - | |
| Oh Mama Africa | A |
| Your elected officials ships your glory | M |
| They loot and sail your resources off your shores | N |
| Leaving the motherlands dry | S |
| And the fatherlands deprived | P |
| Than a drunk driver your people also show reckless behaviours | N |
| Living oblivious to rules and regulations | N |
| - | |
| Oh Mama Africa | A |
| They destroy your lands in their selfish pursuits | N |
| And blame slavery for raking your fate | Q |
| They then receive aids in suits and chill in expensive cars and suites | N |
| And turn ballot papers into bullets | N |
| Pouring your blood in the pits of politics | N |
| And tag it a dirty game | R |
| Yet others play it free and fair | S |
| - | |
| Oh Mama Africa | A |
| This shouldn t have been your fate | Q |
| Yet religion and politics has traded your worth | T |
| So all that your children seek for is quick wealth | U |
| Who is to restore your glorious mandate | Q |
| And awaken their mindsets before it s too late | Q |
| Oh African s where s your honour | S |
| - | |
| Oh Mama Africa | A |
| I sit in the ashes of words | N |
| Wearing black on my melanin skin | V |
| Shedding tears of blood | W |
| For a great tree has fallen | D |
| The river that quenched the thirst | X |
| of natives and foreigners has dried | Y |
| Africa the mother to the genesis of creation | D |
| has lost her reputation | D |
| And her children their identity | M |
| Now entombed in prerogatory and stigma | A |
| You ve gone too soon Arise Mama Africa | A |
Dacosta Kofi Aboagye
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