Just A Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI JJKLMCNOPA QRRSTIUVRPWXA YJZA2ZB2RJJZC2A D2HE2F2B2G2H2VARA AAI2| You are just a boy What do you know | A |
| I reason and reckon with the aged | B |
| For the tears in my youthful eyes is as pepper | C |
| Fire in my heart ablaze in my bones | D |
| I keep holding back it's consuming my flesh inside out | E |
| My hands are tight my lips clinched | F |
| Oh how I ache to kick the poop out of these nincompoops | G |
| My oh my if I could ascend the tallest rock and sound a trumpet to my elders | H |
| But ayaaa does the bleating of a sheep threaten a lion | I |
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| Is it just me or have the eyes of the old gone blurry | J |
| Who will bind this beast that has robbed our society | J |
| Who will say Depart to the demon that has demolished our bonds | K |
| Adam against rib mothers and daughters yearning for a seat at the high table | L |
| Modernity against tradition the law against justice the learned and the untutored alike | M |
| It's a jungle of blacks hoofs and boots clash as dust of shame report to the creator | C |
| I watch from afar as bullets fly amiss | N |
| The hunter hunting dead meat | O |
| Yet still I hold my tongue | P |
| For I am just a boy what do I know | A |
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| BANG BANG BANG Another one down | Q |
| Bitter words between Adam and adamant as the Abels recoil in fear | R |
| Poetic justice as all roads lead to Luzira | R |
| I am emancipated as homes tear apart | S |
| Another vote rigged Corruption at its peak | T |
| Promises of transformation turned into transaction | I |
| My sisters devoured alive mbu simple rape | U |
| Tuition must fall as tear gas tears eyes | V |
| Men in combat clobber batter and scatter | R |
| Oh son of your mother Speak How long will you hold your tongue | P |
| Preach condemn and damn these latter day saints | W |
| But oh who will heed | X |
| For I am just a boy What do I know | A |
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| But no more to this slumber For I am come with javelin words | Y |
| Mama Naki there is no need to destroy all the bee hives just because of a sting from one bee | J |
| Almighty Olobo some days you might be the pigeon but on another you'll be the statue | Z |
| Attention Stop wrestling in the mud you pigs | A2 |
| Put aside your surnames and let your son name you | Z |
| For the wisdom of age has turned you into a bunch of turkeys | B2 |
| And I your son summons you to the village square | R |
| To flog you with flagrums of sanity | J |
| To spit on you bitter herbs of impartiality | J |
| Till you | Z |
| SHUT UP age roars | C2 |
| You are just a boy What do you know | A |
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| But indeed I know nothing | D2 |
| Pardon my bitter tongue my elders | H |
| Am just a lad born 'last night' who still crawls in my faeces of ignorance | E2 |
| I only crave to walk in the footsteps of right not wrong | F2 |
| How long shall we continue to pay a deaf ear to these tragedies | B2 |
| The night is far spent and day break is upon us | G2 |
| cock a doodle doo my rooster voice crows | H2 |
| Awaken sermonize evangelize and moralize | V |
| Walk the talk for your footsteps I follow | A |
| For what you see while sitting I can never though I ascend Rwenzori | R |
| For I am just a boy what do I know | A |
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| Okene Ivan Lawson P'Achan | A |
| RaisingAMan | A |
| SPOKEN WORD | I2 |
Ivan Okene
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