Besmirched Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA ABA CC DD EE FF CGC HH IJK GGG| She was a temple | A |
| Her body had no trace of a kettle | A |
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| Always keeping them in an iron girdle | A |
| She was safe as a | B |
| castle | A |
| - | |
| She left for the city | C |
| To live with her uncle in Ado Ekiti | C |
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| She was only fifteen | D |
| Four years before the end of her teen | D |
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| The night she was at the kitchen | E |
| Her uncle's wife had travelled with their son Stephen | E |
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| When he stepped in | F |
| And asked her to let him in | F |
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| Though she protested | C |
| His blows got her | G |
| exhausted | C |
| - | |
| He hit her not a few | H |
| And took away her virtue | H |
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| There was an | I |
| animalistic spilling of red roses | J |
| Bearing testimony was their oasis | K |
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| Her chastity is over | G |
| He has taken her | G |
| flower | G |
Ifeanyi Onwubu
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