Chimurenga Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCD EFGHIJKL MNOPQR CSTUFVW XYOZA2B2| There are great names | A |
| Of patriots never forgotten | B |
| Warrior spirits never rotten | B |
| Their dreams not gotten | B |
| Souls never sold nor bought | C |
| Blood spilt never sought | D |
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| They stood up to injustice | E |
| To thievery to rape to treachery | F |
| Their trust reneged their love picayune | G |
| They took to war for their respect | H |
| Beaten they never evinced | I |
| Aloud they cried to their God they knelt | J |
| They vowed never they would lie | K |
| Down for the suckers to hunch | L |
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| Finally they sand they marched | M |
| In their ruins the spirits rose | N |
| Home at last free at last they chanted | O |
| But under their throne the vipers spurred | P |
| Their venomous fangs hidden in white gums | Q |
| Without a fight they wouldn t leave | R |
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| Easy how they forgot | C |
| A century ago kings they drove | S |
| From their shrines dethroned | T |
| Herds of their wealth they stole | U |
| Their land they grabbed for free | F |
| Now the leopard has to be dragged | V |
| But its white spots must not stain | W |
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| How easy does human kind forget | X |
| The whip and the lash s cut | Y |
| Easy it is to wipe off the tears of one jilted | O |
| Who knows the pain of the child orphaned | Z |
| Isn t it the soil that knows the sickness of baby mice | A2 |
| Only the tree never forgets that the ax bruised it | B2 |
Seke Bharu
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