Imitation Is Limitation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DDEC FFDG HICDD BJKLM NOPC BQPDCJ R| Ina kwana Baba | A |
| Lafiya yaro na | B |
| Ka je makaranta | C |
| Eh Baba | A |
| - | |
| Listen my son | D |
| While you acquire the Western education | D |
| Don't detest your cultures and traditions | E |
| Learn to appreciate your root and identity | C |
| - | |
| While learning their ways | F |
| Never you imitate their ways | F |
| Imitation is limitation | D |
| Be you be comfortable in your skin | G |
| - | |
| Don't change your identity to belong | H |
| Bear your African names | I |
| It's a mark of your identity | C |
| Tell this to your children | D |
| And to your children's children | D |
| - | |
| Yaro na | B |
| As you walk to the top | J |
| Help people you meet on your way up | K |
| If need be make sacrifices for them | L |
| Put smiles on their faces | M |
| - | |
| If Allah blesses you | N |
| Be humble kind and empathetic | O |
| Be a giver | P |
| Love everybody but trust nobody | C |
| - | |
| Yaro na | B |
| If you do all these | Q |
| You will be happy here and hereafter | P |
| In all love yourself without reservation | D |
| Baba na gode | C |
| Greatness awaits you at the top | J |
| - | |
| April | R |
Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke
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Poet's note: This poems examines the relationship between the old and the young generation. It looks the wise counsel elders give to the younger generation in order to survive the wicked world.
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