On A Borrowed Plate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIG JKLMNOPQRST UVWLTXYZY A2B2C2B2KKD2E2K| When I was young in dark Africa | A |
| I used to think it was folk tale that | B |
| The world was round and | C |
| Rolled like the soccer balls | D |
| Our bare hardened feet kicked | E |
| Who could have told me it was real when | F |
| All I saw was the cloudy horizon | G |
| Marking the end of my world with | H |
| Baroque mountain ranges | I |
| Sagging clouds and a peeping sun | G |
| - | |
| The Almighty blessed me watered my ground | J |
| I grew up and His Angels took me | K |
| To the other side of a world I only dreamt of | L |
| Escaping from the daily death | M |
| From the monotony of grief | N |
| They died everyday before my teary eyes | O |
| Brothers sisters cousins uncles all of them | P |
| They said it was this curse AIDS | Q |
| Torturous with a parching vengeance | R |
| Wantonly plucking away vernal roses | S |
| Leaving deep trails of sorrowful tears | T |
| - | |
| My soul bleeds my heart mourns | U |
| For the children of Africa orphaned ignored | V |
| Malnourished their dreams pitch black | W |
| I pray to the great God above | L |
| To spare them the pain the tears | T |
| Just give them the blessing of hope | X |
| Listen to the harmonies of their souls | Y |
| Moisten their chapped lips | Z |
| Just if you could love their emptying souls | Y |
| - | |
| They have dreams too big and small but | A2 |
| They don't matter no more indignant fantasies | B2 |
| Their indefatigable talents die in their sleep | C2 |
| The songs in their souls furtive melodies | B2 |
| Content with their tainted dis symmetry | K |
| They are swallowed in the obvious perfidy | K |
| Bottomless these gallant soldiers | D2 |
| Disarmed by fate paying for the sins of their fore s | E2 |
| Brave warriors drowning in suffuse poverty | K |
Seke Bharu
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