Rivers Of Rage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFBGB BBHI BB JKLMNO BBB PQRBBBRBB STUBB BBVB| I have seen rivers of rage | A |
| Seen brown faces brimming with breathlessness | B |
| Their heart beats pulsing with weariness | B |
| And yet more brown faces too | C |
| Their skins seering in pain | D |
| Ribcages roaring with phlegm | E |
| All feverish and feeble | F |
| Seen them through my glazed and glassed eyes | B |
| As I pondered my hypocratic oath | G |
| My stethoscope and skill at service | B |
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| I have seen nurses kneel in numbness | B |
| Exhausted by their mass kindness | B |
| Seen them sigh and surrender | H |
| For they too have caught the rhythm | I |
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| Seen the undertaker take the hill of bodies | B |
| Seen him pile his pick Axe and seen him too among the bodies | B |
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| I have seen turbulence so violent | J |
| Whole villages wiped while I waited | K |
| Coughs and fevers long thought | L |
| Long thought easily managed | M |
| But now vast they defy dosage | N |
| My colleagues died in the diagnosis room | O |
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| Seen black bodies and white bodies | B |
| Brown bodies and every mixture in between bodies | B |
| All ravaged by the ruthless reaper without rating reason or recourse | B |
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| I have seen rivers so rogue | P |
| Rising in the east they've swept | Q |
| Sympathy and science down the | R |
| Shaky and shifting sands | B |
| Of politics and parties | B |
| Race and class | B |
| Privilege and pariah | R |
| I have seen rivers raze down Kings | B |
| And made humus of their servants | B |
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| I see rivers of rot | S |
| Death dampens the dawn | T |
| Cries fill the ocean | U |
| Panic pricks pricked presidents | B |
| Doubt lingers in the residents | B |
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| I see the rivers raze down difference | B |
| Write anew human substance | B |
| Dealing a blow against diffidence and dissidence in love for humanity | V |
| I have seen rivers real and rapacious | B |
Denis Barasa
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