Forgive Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCD EFGHD IIJKD LMNNOPD QQQQD RSBRTURRD VNWNRRD XRYDRNPNU| For this scar on my forehead | A |
| This dent in my dental spread | A |
| This crack on my skull | B |
| These charred but chained ankles | C |
| Forgive me | D |
| - | |
| For the lacerations in my lymph | E |
| The sorry sores on my skin | F |
| The leak that is my brain | G |
| Whitewashed brainwashed brain drained | H |
| Forgive me | D |
| - | |
| For the five hundred years of your toil | I |
| Which upon my labour your loss and spoil | I |
| For the depleted homes hollowed by my enslavement | J |
| For soiling your sailship sick journeying the middle passage | K |
| Forgive me | D |
| - | |
| For the colored we down south | L |
| For abandoning masah and missus | M |
| Bolting out of your planned tension plantation | N |
| For negroing your fairness and afroemancipation | N |
| For civil rights and greatness | O |
| For Harlem our harem | P |
| Forgive me | D |
| - | |
| For dining in the main house | Q |
| While you whine in the outhouse | Q |
| For dancing in the powerhouse | Q |
| While you will me in the coca house | Q |
| Forgive me | D |
| - | |
| For clustered and cloistered me back in fraternity less Africa | R |
| For debt and doubt and disease distance | S |
| For opening up to your rival | B |
| For a rush look at Russia | R |
| and an easy squint East | T |
| For an introspective and retrospective | U |
| Peek in BRICS | R |
| For a deep gaze in my own eye blacks instead of your blondes and blues | R |
| Forgive me | D |
| - | |
| For your eager ego | V |
| Your sick solution | N |
| Your despicable dream | W |
| Your centuries scorn | N |
| Our billion blacks | R |
| blackening seabeds | R |
| Forgive me | D |
| - | |
| For gnawing at your guilt | X |
| Clobbering at your conscience | R |
| For scourging your sacred soul | Y |
| Which a sacrilege it was in sedating me in service for your satiety and safety | D |
| For my voice | R |
| My reason | N |
| My freedom | P |
| My action | N |
| Forgive | U |
Denis Barasa
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