Family Album Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDCEFF GAHIJ KLDMNOPQRS TAUVMWKXYZA2B2B2C2D2 E2 EB2 XN| About | A |
| A young boy is born in the thickness | B |
| And darkness | B |
| Around the dawn of colonial Enterprise | C |
| Western Kenya | D |
| His father dies | C |
| He goes to stay with an elder sister | E |
| For he is but about two | F |
| And with his other brother just two | F |
| - | |
| Around | G |
| War breaks out | A |
| Deemed a war if the world | H |
| Conscripts are needed | I |
| To fight on either side | J |
| - | |
| Young man marries | K |
| And is conscripted by the British | L |
| Hamisi Nabilayi | D |
| For that was his name | M |
| Having become a Moslem | N |
| For his love of beef | O |
| Nabilayi for his love | P |
| Of things sweet | Q |
| Is cut off from his wife | R |
| To fight in foreign lands | S |
| - | |
| Back home Longino is born | T |
| About | A |
| To a father abroad | U |
| And a mother alone | V |
| Barasa was his name | M |
| John Longinus alias Longino | W |
| For his interaction with the Catholic missionaries | K |
| At St Mary's Yala | X |
| He becomes a mason | Y |
| And practices his trade | Z |
| In the colonial heights | A2 |
| Of the white Highlands | B2 |
| And the schemes of Transnzoia | B2 |
| Through and beyond the colony | C2 |
| Exits the stage | D2 |
| Having played his part | E2 |
| - | |
| - | |
| My grandfather | E |
| Longino was | B2 |
| - | |
| New images will | X |
| Come | N |
Denis Barasa
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