Wisdom And Power Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFGHI JCKLMNO GPQQGRSQ| I need wisdom | A |
| Not power and pray | B |
| God to give me knowledge | C |
| Not power for as Solomon | D |
| I ask for the wisdom | A |
| To differentiate between good | E |
| And evil and how like Francis | F |
| To change what I can | G |
| And endure what I can't | H |
| And how to make the difference in them all | I |
| - | |
| For the man of power | J |
| Uses raw force bereft of knowledge | C |
| And wisdom and in his own understanding | K |
| He could cajole the people | L |
| Mould them like plasticine | M |
| To suit his whims and caprices | N |
| To achieve the agenda deep in his heart | O |
| - | |
| Wisdom makes a man | G |
| To look before he leaps | P |
| Gives him power to see | Q |
| Beyond his nose to see | Q |
| To see that which the strong man | G |
| Who sits at the zenith | R |
| At the roof top | S |
| Or atop the iroko never can see | Q |
Emmanuel Inya Otu-nwachi
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Poet's note: "Wisdom and Power" continues the discussion in "Season of Madness." The poet asserts he prefers wisdom to power and feels the governor who decamped from one political party to another exercised power without wisdom and believes he will lose at the end because he didn't employ wisdom.
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