The Body Of A Woman Is A Barren Land Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF CG HI JK LE| Mama told me that the body of a woman is a place of dead skulls | A |
| A place where shredded dreams gather to mourn like staggering waters | B |
| seeking to find rest under the tavern of a numb night | C |
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| She said | D |
| Akanji beware of a woman and her body | E |
| It tastes like ruins of war where bones lay feeble in the middle of a red river a river tamed by death | F |
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| The moan of a woman tastes like the cry of a wounded night | C |
| A place where broken men are haunted for sipping from a fallen tree a tree in woman form whose body is a river to every thirsty boy | G |
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| A night with a woman is like the lane that leads nowhere a land where deluded poems gather | H |
| to be shoved down the throat of the earth that yawns without remorse | I |
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| I said to mama | J |
| If a woman's body is a barren land I choose to be a wayfarer that finds a home between the bushy grasp of the fierce sun | K |
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| Then I stood | L |
| And walked away to find my woman and her body | E |
Inioluwa Abiola
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