A Befitting Send-off Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACD EAFG HIJKLMN OAPIQRSSTU ABVWXYZA2FLB2C2SD2AP E2F2| Brothers carry out the autopsy gently | A |
| That corpse was a rich man's residence | B |
| The carcass was never an ordinary body | A |
| To be hacked and dug upon | C |
| As though it were a piece of log | D |
| - | |
| Brothers be gentle and handle the corpse tenderly according to his wish | E |
| Give him a sense of dignity and opportunity | A |
| to let the whole world know that | F |
| no ordinary soul has been lost | G |
| - | |
| Brothers no part of his intestines | H |
| must be be given away to the starving VULTURES after the embalming | I |
| Behind the illusive past | J |
| of this precious corpse was a real man | K |
| who left hefty chunk of assets behind | L |
| and arrows of wealth shall | M |
| seize not to sprout upon them | N |
| - | |
| How he hated | O |
| the autopsy | A |
| the cruel hands of the pathologist | P |
| the embalming | I |
| the unfeeling hands of the mortician | Q |
| BUT he loved the hearse and | R |
| the comforting hands of the family members | S |
| AND not the VULTURES | S |
| who would come to devour | T |
| food at his funeral | U |
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| Brothers it's a pity | A |
| I am devoid of influence | B |
| To disengage this dictator's persona | V |
| from its dry corpse | W |
| I would have showed | X |
| him the bankrupt nature of its dead host | Y |
| Bankrupt both of life and in wealth | Z |
| How awesome it would feel | A2 |
| To let him observe that | F |
| All the lifeless loser did a lifetime was to chase wind | L |
| I would invite him to laugh at its helpless corpse till the lungs hurt and ribs ache | B2 |
| To laugh at how the stolen wealth are of no benefit to the desperate carcass | C2 |
| that is now being buried in a hole dug by the poor VULTURES | S |
| that all his life he stole from | D2 |
| I would then end my story | A |
| With the darkest | P |
| And possibly the saddest word I would think of | E2 |
| About the follies of his life upon the life of the poor man that now seals his coffin and lowers it to the tiny grave | F2 |
Michael Aete
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