On The Other Side Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJ KLMNO PQORE SOTFQ FUVEL WXYZO SA2B2C2O RD2E2F2G2 SH2I2J2E2| I am here on this side where | A |
| Children are born they shine like bliss | B |
| They are guarded like vaults of gold | C |
| Fed like tiger puppies balmy lips bright eyes | D |
| They are untouchable children of God | E |
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| On this side they are never hungry | F |
| Never cold nor hot their feet grace if grandeur | G |
| Their bodies never naked if they don t choose to | H |
| Their clothes patch less and branded | I |
| They are the children born of the light | J |
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| Just to look at them their skin tells | K |
| Of a world without a speckle | L |
| Their tummies bulge with surfeit | M |
| Still their trash cans fill up | N |
| Monday to Sunday of food uneaten | O |
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| On this side they buy whole | P |
| When they need a quarter | Q |
| They worry about obesity not starvation | O |
| They spend to starve their bodies | R |
| They are the children of a greater God | E |
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| I come from that other side | S |
| Where it is a privilege to be born | O |
| Let alone to grow up and dream | T |
| Ain t no big deal to go hungry | F |
| With no shoes pants patched ten times over | Q |
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| On that side they die daily | F |
| Babies toddlers little boys and girls | U |
| There is no escape eternal sorrow | V |
| The creatures of a lesser god | E |
| They are born to run to struggle | L |
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| They run everyday to school | W |
| Barefoot bare buttocks ashy lips | X |
| They dream of getting out | Y |
| Out of this bare naked lively hood | Z |
| These children forgotten forsaken | O |
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| On my side that dark side | S |
| Little girls baby girls virgin girls raped | A2 |
| By adult men their fathers their protectors | B2 |
| Their innocence ripped apart | C2 |
| Their innocence infected by dying men | O |
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| They wail these babies human babies | R |
| To deaf ears defeated hearts | D2 |
| Mothers enslaved in a man s world | E2 |
| Humble women dutiful wives of Africa | F2 |
| Subservient mired in a labor of love | G2 |
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| On the streets they roam on that side | S |
| They flood the cities children of the streets | H2 |
| Outstretched hands begging nagging | I2 |
| Ostracized cursed minds and hearts paralyzed | J2 |
| They live in their own world | E2 |
Seke Bharu
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