So Be It. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEFG HIDJ DEKL MNOP DAQQ OLKL| We played dined and wined together but today you want to bring me down | A |
| Forgetting so quick how you comfortably ate from my pepper and salts | B |
| With smile and joy you licked my oily palms but to my messy hands you bring insults | C |
| Certainly in the anger of Oya Oshun Olokun and Yemoja you will surely drown | A |
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| All your harms not yet enough | D |
| The arms lifted by a banana tree will surely hit the banana tree itself | E |
| The chickens are always behind their mother | F |
| If we say we will take hold of today my friend it is for another day as no one dare take hold of the air | G |
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| What have I done to worth your cruelty and zeal to cut me off | H |
| Your pranks and antics I know but my crawling like that of a Tiger is not that I fidget | I |
| Haven't I in most cases done you good when things were for you rough | D |
| With boldness I beseech ogiri alapa to fall on you while ayilara makes you its target | J |
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| All evil arms you stretched not yet enough | D |
| Afopina that dares to kill the fitila will surely kill itself | E |
| Oh Why would you take your saraa beyond the mosque | K |
| As no one sees chains and swords on the legs and neck of flies all your evil towards me will never manifest | L |
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| Gentlemen of evil and damsel of beasts how I thought you would have walked in the counsel of the wise | M |
| You were once a sheep but now you walk with dogs tell me how will you escape eating poo | N |
| Despite blowing poetically the Hunter's whistle you are lost in the jungle like a deaf dog and surely you shall pay the price | O |
| I repeat ayilara will turn your belly to a gory pool | P |
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| All your evil plans towards me are not enough | D |
| Owo koko la fin wo igi owo orisa la fi wo afin | A |
| I have plucked the leaves of onitete so you dare not match me | Q |
| Sese lomode nyo mo eye anywhere I am or go may the world always rejoice with me | Q |
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| Abere kin ko ohun aso | O |
| Konko kan kin ko ohun odo | L |
| The motion moved by alagemo is always accepted by orisa oke | K |
| I've moved my poetic motion today and may same be ever sustained and not overruled | L |
Fatoki, Oluwatobi O.
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Write your comment about So Be It. poem by Fatoki, Oluwatobi O.
Gift Maduforo : Indeed an interesting read
Olori4me2nv: This is awesome more wisdom to your knowledge I duf my cap respect Mr Fatoki
Balogun abisola Angel: Nice one Mr fatoki
Am inspired by your poem
"I've moved my poetic motion today and may same be ever sustained and not overruled"
I say amen to this sir
Respect
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