Crying Wolf Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEFG GGHI AJKL MNOPQR| Turning and turning in the widening gyre | A |
| The falcon cannot hear the falconer | A |
| Things fall apart the centre cannot hold | B |
| Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world | C |
| - | |
| We've not heard | D |
| The last of it | E |
| For each day the drama | F |
| Keeps unfolding enlarging | G |
| - | |
| The strong man keeps talking | G |
| Keeps threatening barking | G |
| Like a rabid dog caught in a killing trap | H |
| Ready to bite anyone that dares come close | I |
| - | |
| The hunter's become the quarry | A |
| Hunted by the very memories | J |
| Of his ignominious past afraid the traps | K |
| He'd set for others may catch him as he beats about the bush | L |
| - | |
| The actors suddenly have become spectators | M |
| Throwing away the scripts they'd crafted | N |
| For the melodrama they'd longed to stage | O |
| The protagonist having missed his cue | P |
| Things have fallen apart | Q |
| And the centre cannot hold together again | R |
Emmanuel Inya Otu-nwachi
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Poet's note: In the spirit of the "Season of Madness" the poet observes the attitude and utterances of the decampee Governor and thinks he is crying wolf where there's none. He is the one with the structure and apparatus to inflict terror on his opponents, yet he is the one conplaing of being atop threatened.
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