From Dust To Glory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BBBB CCCC BBBBBB BBBBBBB DDDDD EEE EEE E| I was insulted because I was poor | A |
| They look down on me because my family is poor | A |
| They even baptise me with insult because I was poor | A |
| They never gave me a chance to express myself because I was poor | A |
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| Poverty tarnished my identity in my community | B |
| Poverty insulted my personality | B |
| I was denied of my family property | B |
| I was not even allowed to speak in a family gathering because of my poverty | B |
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| They said am stinking | C |
| They said am smelling | C |
| They said my poverty is affecting my thinking | C |
| All this were there saying | C |
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| Oh I was not valued because I had no money | B |
| My family people even called me a dunny | B |
| This is not funny | B |
| I was promised a great destiny | B |
| Which I will live in in harmony | B |
| But now I am living in agony | B |
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| Oh My food is even soaking me | B |
| My clothes are mocking me | B |
| What people were saying was killing me | B |
| Even my dreams were hunting me | B |
| Oh Money is laughing at me | B |
| Even death rejected me | B |
| Poverty why are you doing this to me | B |
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| I was called a bastard | D |
| Because I look so tattered | D |
| Their words left me shattered | D |
| But they never bothered | D |
| Rather they were unto me like a badgered | D |
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| But now the climax of my life has happened like that in a drama | E |
| I now have money to the extent I even bought a homa | E |
| I am driving everyday with my papsi and my mama | E |
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| Before I can't even afford tea neither bama | E |
| But now am drinking tea with butter and bama | E |
| Now they are saying am even richer than Barack Obama | E |
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| Written by Davidson perfect Jim | E |
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