If This World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHA IJKKLMNA OPQRSTUUV WCMXYZEA2 YB2Y C2D2UE2E2 YE2E2F2YHTE2E2| How I wish this world had eyes | A |
| For it to see my people in that darkness | B |
| To see them struggling and toiling | C |
| For a morsel to numb the gnawing hunger | D |
| To see them gorged by some mystical pestilence | E |
| Whole generations drowning in inimical waters | F |
| In a cannonade of man made mire | G |
| How long shall we justify the pain | H |
| Rise Oh Africa rise | A |
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| Stolen chained and flogged we cried | I |
| Summoning the one great creator we knew | J |
| The one who punished us for the wrong we did | K |
| The same who blessed us for the good we did | K |
| But today we still cry for we don t understand | L |
| Why Oh creator Why and for what indiscretions | M |
| Do we endure such long punishments | N |
| Rise Oh Lion of Hearts rise | A |
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| We sang our very own songs | O |
| Songs of joy songs of life | P |
| For the rain that showered our arduous sweat | Q |
| For the harvests that brought surfeit | R |
| For good health he always showered us with plenty | S |
| Where then did go the spirit of Africa | T |
| If you are asleep it s been too long a sleep | U |
| Your children are being ravished by a morose satrap | U |
| Rise our greatness rise Oh king of the soil | V |
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| Your children cry their souls thirst | W |
| Cool their aching throats craving | C |
| Caking in the depths of the salty oceans | M |
| Let them rise with the winds | X |
| The storms that ravage the better world | Y |
| Let their anger be head hold your spears high | Z |
| Let them fight for their innocence | E |
| Rise oh Land of Glory sanitize your salted wounds | A2 |
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| For centuries they have toiled creatures of servility | Y |
| Working and slaving for a world beyond their reach | B2 |
| A world that disappears with every drip of their sweat | Y |
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| Tears trickle down into a perfidious abyss | C2 |
| The last they know of a world free and fair | D2 |
| These tears they cry keep cutting deep | U |
| Corroding and maiming the souls of their souls | E2 |
| Oh Mamma Africa do you hear their mournful devotions | E2 |
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| They have ingested every culture so imposed | Y |
| Withstood every experiment to better the human race | E2 |
| Mesmerized the world with their resilience | E2 |
| But deep down their souls cry revere | F2 |
| To their wounded pride a lost identity | Y |
| They refuse to die silently to cry in vain | H |
| This is your time your opera | T |
| Yours to touch with your rustic incandescence | E2 |
| Rise Oh Africa Rise | E2 |
Seke Bharu
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