Long Live Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCADEFCCGGHIHHHJJK LMMKNNOOPQQRHNSCPTQH UVWCQNQNXYQECZA2B2| There was a time where even breathing was a sin | A |
| A period of sorrow where only apartheid was seen | B |
| They lamented however no one was willing to listen | C |
| Regarded with disgust for being alert and certain | C |
| Annihilated for the pigment of the skin | A |
| Caged up so they don't go to school and learn | D |
| Locked up and used as slaves with no gain | E |
| Go in the arms of Morpheus tomorrow be the same story again | F |
| Given ineffectual tasks as pulverizing a mountain | C |
| A voice is a force one can use as a weapon | C |
| Hence they sealed their mouths so they can not verbalize | G |
| You sigh they cause a holocaust if they realize | G |
| Forced to call even a juniors a bass | H |
| Descriminated by seniors treated with bias | I |
| They had to bow and smile when they pass | H |
| Given a devoir of carrying a passi | H |
| Areas segregated so they can not pass | H |
| It's my Forefathers I'm reciting about | J |
| In case you are wondering what I'm all about | J |
| The ones who were abominations for being them | K |
| Revulsion and repulsion was felt towards to because of their kind | L |
| Sent them to correctional facilities so they can take the land | M |
| The cattle miniature treasures and everything at hand | M |
| Everything that glitters vigorously grasped from them | K |
| Besithi abazinto they are undeserving | N |
| Batsho bethi abazuva kwanto they are unmarinaqueving | N |
| The Sons and daughters of the soil | O |
| Who went through hardship and toil | O |
| Rivers are now filled with their blood | P |
| Exhaling woefully | Q |
| I'm sorry you didn't get the chance to see your country free | Q |
| Ndiyaxolisa you didn't get to know the taste of freedom | R |
| ke kopa t oarelo you didn't get to go to certain places you were force to remain in peripherals | H |
| Ngiyaxolisa you had to explain subserviently why the Celestial being made you in black | N |
| Nd khou humbela pfarelo you didn't get to dance to the song that make us come together | S |
| Ke kopa tshwarelo you did not get to see us holding hands as a one nation | C |
| Ndzi kombela ku khomeriwa you were brutally eradicated in cold blood | P |
| Your sweat sweat in the present is sweet | T |
| Your tears today are our vigor and vitality | Q |
| Your fears this morning are our pride and confidence | H |
| I salute you Comrades for the sacrifices you made | U |
| Ndinothulela umnqwazi for putting us first | V |
| Namhlanje I'm on the other side of the world | W |
| I detecte no repugnance nor aversion | C |
| Embracing my skin colour unapologetically | Q |
| I'm walking tall I submit to no human being | N |
| I've got a handful of right ezinye zindixakile Plethora of prerogatives ezinye zindidikile | Q |
| I hope you get the blague | N |
| So you can laugh and guffaw something you never got to do | X |
| GEMIURGE bestow them thrones to flomp | Y |
| Grant them Mbadadas to wander in glory | Q |
| I pray you can see your struggle was not in vein | E |
| We are amalgamated We are the rainbow nation | C |
| It's us who are making waves in the atmosphere under your name | Z |
| Long live Maqabane Long live | A2 |
| Phambiliiii Ma Afrika a | B2 |
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