A City Of Silence - A Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EF GHI JEK LM NO PEQR ISTU DVF GWX A| She is the girl who was made to wear silence on her skin | A |
| With misery pushed down her throat | B |
| By men of famished lips | C |
| who know how to knot fear on bodies of their prey | D |
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| Like a lost smoke finding its way to a room in the fires | E |
| She's lost with no place to call a home | F |
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| They took her laid her between corridors of shame | G |
| On a eve too hot for the rain | H |
| In their eyes she saw a city where stigma is clothed in regalia of dignity | I |
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| Men who hid their faces in pages of the wind | J |
| Men of darkened desires | E |
| They tore her dress not to pieces but from top to bottom her dignity they cracked | K |
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| They asked her not to cry she obliged | L |
| As they searched for love in the city between her thighs they were six | M |
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| She is now a lane no one wants to tread | N |
| On her voice you will find a scar bigger than her dream | O |
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| They stole her innocence and left her to find solace | P |
| In the consolation of onlookers | E |
| She is long lost but still trying to find her way back to herself | Q |
| Maybe she would maybe not | R |
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| But if you happen to find her before me | I |
| Remember to tell her not to hold on to the grief | S |
| Tell her how to be strong | T |
| To cry out the tears for in them the world may find a way to hunt down her fears | U |
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| And in her lonely sighs some little girl like her may find a way | D |
| back to their dignity that wandered off | V |
| seeking a place to call a home | F |
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| I don't know the girl's name | G |
| But I hope this poem finds her | W |
| And in them I hope she finds courage in the pages of these words | X |
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| The girl who was made to wear silence on her skin | A |
Inioluwa Abiola
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