Being Poor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGAHI JKDLM NOPD AAQA R| Since I'm up for money | A |
| I have less time to play and see my friends | B |
| It is harder for me to make my voice heard | C |
| Or to make decisions over my own life | D |
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| My ideas are often treated with less respect | E |
| My auntie always talks to me with a bick bickering voice | F |
| Rages are my clothes no Vaseline to hide my cracked skin | G |
| Children's at school would gather around me booing and laughing at me | A |
| It because of my old school shoes | H |
| Sometimes l used to seat on my auntie's verandah marvel to other children in the streets | I |
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| I go in the street bugging | J |
| Imagine kneeling down for just a piece of bread | K |
| People they just pass me by as l loose hope in my life | D |
| I go one place to another in search of accommodation | L |
| People they don't understand me cause l have my own secret struggle | M |
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| The day my parents passed away it was the last day to smile with my relatives | N |
| The thought of losing the love of my parents it was more than death itself | O |
| I wish if my tears will go to their windowless homes and bring them back | P |
| I have bad relationship with myself and it is poisoning everything in my life | D |
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| Who will look after me | A |
| Who wants to stay with a bugger like me | A |
| Where do l look where will l go | Q |
| Who wants a poorboy like me | A |
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| I hate to be poor | R |
Panashe Chigwedere
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