Walk Among Tombstones Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGHI JKLMNOP QRS OLTUVWUXU YUUUZA2 B2GLC2D2U B2A2ME2F2UXX G2GYUC2 H2UI2I2J2| I took a walk | A |
| Among the tombstones | B |
| As usual | C |
| My route to the market | D |
| - | |
| But today was no mere day | E |
| Fore the spirits had seemed to be live | F |
| But in shock I paid attention | G |
| To their laughter | H |
| Chats giggles and mocks | I |
| - | |
| But some were crying out loud | J |
| Yet I heard them all | K |
| Like sibilant whispers | L |
| Crying for their squandered lives | M |
| Wishing they had not used | N |
| Their wisdom lavishly | O |
| Without worth | P |
| - | |
| Claiming to have had | Q |
| Their whole lives figured out | R |
| Except that death would come to thwart | S |
| - | |
| In confusion I stood attentively | O |
| Fore their whispers | L |
| Were their like tentacles in my ears | T |
| As they wept | U |
| For their shattered dreams | V |
| Broken vows | W |
| Promises unkept | U |
| With all the fortunes | X |
| Never got it be spent | U |
| - | |
| I stumbled upon young souls | Y |
| With battles unfinished | U |
| Goals unsettled | U |
| Hopes scattered | U |
| With mysteries of their own | Z |
| Deaths unresolved to the living | A2 |
| - | |
| I paused motionless | B2 |
| Alert with passion | G |
| To the murmurs | L |
| Of souls with tarnished legacies | C2 |
| Cursing on their bragging foes | D2 |
| Gloating with pride | U |
| - | |
| And I stood there motionless | B2 |
| With caution listening | A2 |
| To the narration of young lives | M |
| Fore they died young | E2 |
| With their sanctity so pure | F2 |
| Yet never got to live up to | U |
| The great expectations | X |
| Of their like bed ones | X |
| - | |
| Fore death brought a | G2 |
| Consternation without deviation | G |
| Of their diminished souls | Y |
| And with their presence supplant | U |
| By memories | C2 |
| - | |
| Thus upon these grounds | H2 |
| They lie like detritus unnoticed | U |
| With their second chances | I2 |
| Vitiated by the consequences | I2 |
| Of their sins | J2 |
Gideon Motanya
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