Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDE FGBHIJ FDKLMNCI AJNOPQRDS TUVWBGDB| Death | A |
| I implore you | B |
| I beseech you | B |
| Hone your claws no more | C |
| Tarry | D |
| Retreat | E |
| - | |
| In the abundance of blossoming | F |
| You clear promising fields | G |
| If not you | B |
| You send your kith and kin | H |
| Why | I |
| Aren t you afraid of an empty future | J |
| - | |
| Reaping immediately after sowing | F |
| Swiftly sweeping the fields empty | D |
| Why such greed | K |
| Aren t you content | L |
| Daily hourly we feed thy bowels | M |
| We quench thy thirst | N |
| But you come back for more | C |
| Why | I |
| - | |
| Death | A |
| Arrest thy hunger | J |
| Incarcerate your thirst | N |
| We are tired of mounds | O |
| Tarry a while | P |
| Come and harvest | Q |
| When the crops have dried | R |
| Harvest hurriedly | D |
| Fields that have had their share | S |
| - | |
| But touch not | T |
| The lush vegetation | U |
| Hold your storms at bay | V |
| Arrest your cousins pestilence | W |
| For they too | B |
| Have plundered our fields | G |
| Death listen to me | D |
| I implore you | B |
Murithi Ikiara
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