The Prison Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD BEFB GHDI BJBK LMLN BOBBB PHCQ RBHB| Home of the helpless | A |
| Built with a corrugated irons | B |
| The innocent incarcerated | C |
| For a pardonable crime | D |
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| In court sittings | B |
| Judges bribed | E |
| They twist and thwart the truth | F |
| The voiceless cry for a voice | B |
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| Many a soul | G |
| Wallows in pains and misery | H |
| Over the crime | D |
| They never committed | I |
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| Though the prisons are in sizes | B |
| Mansion and edifice for the opulent | J |
| Match house boxes for the impecunious | B |
| Crimes are in stratum | K |
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| Like Evans the anointed kidnapper | L |
| Whose arrest and cases cried aloud | M |
| His imprisonment a folktale dinner | L |
| His accuser's voice mute | N |
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| The poor are voiceless and helpless | B |
| In the cacophony of their match | O |
| house boxes | B |
| Their hearts in need of a voice | B |
| To silence their oppressors | B |
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| For how long will a soul weep | P |
| For eternity | H |
| In prison souls converted | C |
| or enslave to sin | Q |
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| When eventually released | R |
| The society feels their presence | B |
| Positively or negatively | H |
| We are the architect of our woes | B |
Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke
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Poet's note: This poem decries the hopelessness of the poor incarcerated without fair hearing. The fate of the poor is alarming when it get to court. 'The voiceless cry for a voice'
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