When I Die Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEFG HIJEKLF MND OFPPQ DRDM SPFTU| When the sun has set for me and the stars should have blinked no more | A |
| When the time for me to go and see my friends on the other shore | A |
| When the breath that I have loved for years have ceased | B |
| Please know it's already my evening sun a fallen son of Mama Gideon | C |
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| Do cry your tears for it will be the first and the last time seeing me happy | D |
| For all these years I've been a lachrymose son of my mother | E |
| Let the hills of gesima know that the son of motanya has gone to the ocean of haunting spectres | F |
| Be humbled by your tears and accord me my due respect | G |
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| When I die let Miriam come home | H |
| Give her my share of land | I |
| For her farm of omayio is where we grew our love | J |
| For she is my all time sinecure | E |
| But I promise her that in case she leaves my body to the maggots in my hut that night | K |
| Then will I cause a stampede | L |
| I will refuse to get out of my hut for obsequies | F |
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| When I die I want my two sons from same mother to assemble near my grave | M |
| Let them spit on my face as my only daughter sits far away | N |
| For I will not allow a girl like her to be near my putrefied body | D |
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| When I die tell my unborn son that he'll inherit my name | O |
| Tell him I died before I saw his face | F |
| For I'm sure a man like me always sires boys with you | P |
| If in case she's a girl woe unto you | P |
| Leave my house for my birthday will be announced once again | Q |
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| When I die I will want my books besides me | D |
| Let my publishers come from where they sit down | R |
| Pocketing my hard found publication fee | D |
| Let them donate money to the pal bearers for them to take me to my grave | M |
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| Finally when I die | S |
| Stop calling my home motanya | P |
| Call it the name of owls | F |
| Because I'm sure I'll die an horrible death | T |
| Yes I'll die in vain | U |
Gideon Motanya
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