Fateless Soul Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCC EFEF CCCC CCCC| The lengthy cruise of life is full of war | A |
| From the gut of man to the way of womb | B |
| Having roved his ways on the hill and tor | A |
| His gains and self end in the trough of tomb | B |
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| Is it to toil to strive and yet to yield | C |
| Or to bust a gut and lo come to naught | D |
| Nay the clouds are no more a sleeve to shield | C |
| Of joy the world is short but full of aught | C |
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| The gash of its thorn is nowhere to heal | E |
| The docs are hard at it to soothe own pain | F |
| So the pangs for him become a stock meal | E |
| When the labour has proved to be in vain | F |
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| But has he called to mind the clout of fate | C |
| its weight is hard on the brow of the breast | C |
| Should he find the lost joy before it's late | C |
| Let him live the rest to regain the best | C |
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| For in the sway of fate there lies the lot | C |
| Like the whoops of joy that stay till the end | C |
| And of affairs in ease that finish not | C |
| Just as in peace his minds in the rest spend | C |
Kehinde Bashir Akinola
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