Modern Daughters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHFI JKLMJNOPQN KRJSTUVP NWXEYNZEA2 A2NNHA2B2A2VE C2YD2E2A2C2A2A2F2A2F 2G2NH2Those children dressed in rugs | A |
That made them better than the rich | B |
And their gray faces that looked | C |
Like children of holy ghosts | D |
It was not a shock but a reality | E |
I sat opposite the stage of performance | F |
In a school visitation day | G |
Where hardworking parents were expected | H |
Expectant of their children s performance | F |
I was tempted to call it a living hell | I |
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I am sorry for my eyes | J |
This little girl came forward | K |
A girl with little shy breasts | L |
And that skirt short like | M |
The distance between eyes | J |
Her limbs tall and slender | N |
Like the fattest grass in Buluganya forest | O |
And like a pig burning with libido | P |
For a man pig | Q |
All the house brought their attention closer | N |
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She spread her arms forward | K |
Pulled her brief skirt | R |
Above her dirty raw thighs | J |
And then she twisted her wasp like waist | S |
Her legs begun colliding as | T |
She started stealing in her dances | U |
That was but the beginning | V |
Of my wonder up to tomorrow | P |
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The house was then full of fire | N |
Full of malodorous orders | W |
Mixed with unbathed bodies | X |
And the gods that women use for beauty | E |
And then she collided on the floor again | Y |
Like a millipede running away from danger | N |
She rapidly moved her buttocks | Z |
From bottom to top artfully | E |
Like graduates in their last rehearsals | A2 |
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The whole room was then lost in laughters | A2 |
All the attention only set on her | N |
All their eyes only pointing onto her | N |
All their faces were twisted | H |
To send her smiles of applause | A2 |
Their teeth were cemented out | B2 |
To send their cheers | A2 |
And all their heads nodding | V |
To give her company | E |
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She then turned to them her back | C2 |
And lifted her buttocks again | Y |
Rotated before them | D2 |
Like a bee guarding its hive | E2 |
She then walked on her hands | A2 |
While breaking and mending her back | C2 |
In what they called break dance | A2 |
She danced all dances | A2 |
The dances I had never seen | F2 |
She danced all styles | A2 |
The styles I had never seen | F2 |
That young girl is a mature woman | G2 |
Spoilt by either her mother or father | N |
At such a tender age | H2 |
Nabende Emmanuel
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