Ego Tripping Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HIJKKLMN KKKOPKQ QKKR KSKTUVWX KYDZA2B2KKC2KKD2 E2N F2F2| I was born in the congo | A |
| I walked to the fertile crescent and built | B |
| the sphinx | C |
| I designed a pyramid so tough that a star | D |
| that only glows every one hundred years falls | E |
| into the center giving divine perfect light | F |
| I am bad | G |
| - | |
| I sat on the throne | H |
| drinking nectar with allah | I |
| I got hot and sent an ice age to europe | J |
| to cool my thirst | K |
| My oldest daughter is nefertiti | K |
| the tears from my birth pains | L |
| created the nile | M |
| I am a beautiful woman | N |
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| I gazed on the forest and burned | K |
| out the sahara desert | K |
| with a packet of goat's meat | K |
| and a change of clothes | O |
| I crossed it in two hours | P |
| I am a gazelle so swift | K |
| so swift you can't catch me | Q |
| - | |
| For a birthday present when he was three | Q |
| I gave my son hannibal an elephant | K |
| He gave me rome for mother's day | K |
| My strength flows ever on | R |
| - | |
| My son noah built new ark and | K |
| I stood proudly at the helm | S |
| as we sailed on a soft summer day | K |
| I turned myself into myself and was | T |
| jesus | U |
| men intone my loving name | V |
| All praises All praises | W |
| I am the one who would save | X |
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| I sowed diamonds in my back yard | K |
| My bowels deliver uranium | Y |
| the filings from my fingernails are | D |
| semi precious jewels | Z |
| On a trip north | A2 |
| I caught a cold and blew | B2 |
| My nose giving oil to the arab world | K |
| I am so hip even my errors are correct | K |
| I sailed west to reach east and had to round off | C2 |
| the earth as I went | K |
| The hair from my head thinned and gold was laid | K |
| across three continents | D2 |
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| I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal | E2 |
| I cannot be comprehended except by my permission | N |
| - | |
| I mean I can fly | F2 |
| like a bird in the sky | F2 |
Nikki Giovanni
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