If I Die Today Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DEFF GGHH IJKK LMNOPP QRSS TTATB U| If I die today | A |
| Just put my body on a bed to lay | A |
| Neither weep nor cry for me in vain | B |
| Do not sorrow nor be in pain | B |
| Celebrate my death for I have no one's debt | C |
| For I have lived a life I will never regret | C |
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| If at all I never see the break of dawn | D |
| Do not look so sad do not even mourn | E |
| Do not cry out so loud for I won't return | F |
| Just rise up gather yourself for you can't tell tomorrow might be your turn | F |
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| If at all my breath should cease | G |
| Do not let your stress or anxiety increase | G |
| Just kneel down and pray for my soul in heaven to be received | H |
| For there I belong even before I was conceived | H |
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| When my eyes close in death | I |
| Just know that I no longer belong to this earth | J |
| I am only on a pilgrimage in this world | K |
| And when it's over I move over to the next world | K |
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| One day I shall reach the cross road | L |
| I like to call it my final aboard | M |
| Where life death battle for my soul | N |
| Whoever wins the other must let go | O |
| Talk now while I still can hear you | P |
| Teach now that I can learn from you | P |
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| For a battery has been placed on my heart | Q |
| One day it will die and my heart will stop beating | R |
| When a phone battery dies it can be replaced | S |
| But when that of the heart dies it can never be replaced | S |
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| If tomorrow never comes again | T |
| If the day never breaks again | T |
| If today my breath is taken away | A |
| If at all the sun never rises again | T |
| Know that the memories we share will forever remain | B |
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| THE END | U |
Mthandazo Mkhwananzi
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