Moles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFCGH IJFKL BMNOH PQARS TUVVW XYAZ U| too many moles in the grain | A |
| pollute the taste of the meal | B |
| nothing wholesome remains | C |
| nothing healthy survives | D |
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| but the greater tragedy | E |
| is the farmer who ruins his own harvest | F |
| who mixes poison with the grains | C |
| meant for brothers friends companions | G |
| a banquet turned to a burial | H |
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| and Naija bleeds | I |
| every dawn breaks with another name | J |
| another cry swallowed by dust | F |
| another family counting shadows | K |
| instead of children | L |
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| how does a nation heal | B |
| when the granary is corrupted | M |
| when the watchmen trade their lamps for coins | N |
| when the very meal meant to nourish | O |
| becomes the blood of its people | H |
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| how do we rise | P |
| when the ones called to protect | Q |
| become moles in the grain | A |
| worms in the wood | R |
| poison in the pot | S |
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| still | T |
| somewhere beneath this wounded soil | U |
| the earth cries in sorrow at | V |
| embrace of too many victims that | V |
| the seeds in it forgot how to grow | W |
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| yet somewhere in this forlorn farm | X |
| a seed of mercy waits | Y |
| for honest hands clean rain | A |
| and a dawn that no longer tastes of fear | Z |
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| Ifeanyichukwu Onwughalu | U |
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Ifeanyichukwu Onwughalu
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