Fields Of Sorrow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFD GHIJKLM NOPQRSTUR VWXRYAPLAZ A2B2Z C2D2E2F2ZG2Z H2HI2J2K2L2L2HVM2L2 N2NN2MKN2ZMI2O2ZN| Day in day out they turn their attention | A |
| To the outskirts of the city that never sleeps | B |
| It is where they sow the seeds that never shoot | C |
| They the souls of the young and bold | D |
| Lives nipped at the bud candles | E |
| Blown out at the young of the night | F |
| A story never to be told | D |
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| Rows upon rows they stand out | G |
| Like rows of corn in early summer | H |
| They are crosses holy wooden and stone | I |
| But it matters not now because they mark just the end | J |
| A consternation of a generation with no hope | K |
| Of a resurrection in their trail an orphanage | L |
| A hopeless epitaph to a land of promise | M |
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| Let the selfish world forget no | N |
| Turn the blind eye to the plight of my people | O |
| Let them stuff their ears tight to | P |
| The consecrated wail of the hungry black child | Q |
| Who dies for no fault of hers | R |
| She cries for mercy cry to a lesser god | S |
| She gasps for her last breath | T |
| In a world abundant with enough | U |
| A great world that reflects in our mirrors | R |
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| Down in the hungry bowls of the earth | V |
| In the gaping mouths of the greedy soil | W |
| They let their tear springs bless | X |
| Mothers grandmothers fathers and grand fathers | R |
| They ask for the trillionth time | Y |
| Is it you oh Lord who brought us this affliction | A |
| Did you make these germs we can t see to | P |
| Deprive us of heirs to our heritage | L |
| Cry loud Oh Africa cry great Lion | A |
| For when you die in your sleep you leave a silent world | Z |
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| They congregate they worship | A2 |
| These humble women of Africa bow to the God of love | B2 |
| Their knees scaly their skin creased | Z |
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| Their voices hoarse singing songs of kings | C2 |
| For centuries they have sang the same old songs | D2 |
| On the slave ships on the toiling fields in the unmanned villages | E2 |
| Is this the day of reckoning when questions they will ask | F2 |
| Is this the right God that we have praised | Z |
| Are these the right songs we have sang | G2 |
| Sing Oh Africa sing sing to the end of your day | Z |
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| They ran the Saxons the Portuguese the Boers | H2 |
| All clans of the same tribe even the jaded Jews from Hitler | H |
| To Africa the free land a land of their discovery | I2 |
| With them they brought syphilis typhoid anthrax influenza | J2 |
| To rid of the monkeys that wouldn t oblige | K2 |
| One by one we beat them now they got us square | L2 |
| Run we can t Hide we dare | L2 |
| Journey to the fields of sorrow we never tire | H |
| We lay them in the bowls of our fore bearer earth | V |
| Like lambs to the hungry wolves | M2 |
| Our future our love our hope we mourn and despair | L2 |
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| We beg we pray Oh lord spare us the tears | N2 |
| For they are full these fields of sorrow | N |
| Every hole has been planted every seed awaits your tears | N2 |
| We look up to you Oh greatness | M |
| To give shoot to the seedlings of hope | K |
| That you may stop our hopeless tears | N2 |
| For the love you bestowed on our kind | Z |
| This big heart your blessing to us | M |
| The one that saw us through slavery | I2 |
| Colonization and barbaric strife is | O2 |
| Always ready to forgive and forget | Z |
| That we planted our souls in the fields of sorrow | N |
Seke Bharu
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