Incommunicado Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFBGHIJHCKLMNNOP QRKLSTUVKKWJWKLGXU AYCZEF A2| In my Great aunt s house | A |
| There are standing tall glass bookshelves | B |
| That are far out of my reach | C |
| They contain books | D |
| Books that look like you | E |
| Ancient and Golden | F |
| These bookshelves | B |
| They stand far away | G |
| I reach out to touch them | H |
| As though I can | I |
| But I can t | J |
| I can t reach them | H |
| Father you re out of reach | C |
| Your voice is a whisper | K |
| My ears can t recognize | L |
| Your side of the bed feels cold | M |
| Like a corpse laid in it | N |
| Mother misses it | N |
| Mother misses your warmth | O |
| She wants to hold the stars | P |
| But her arms are too short | Q |
| She wants to whisper a wish | R |
| But her voice is a whisper | K |
| Your ears can t recognize | L |
| Every night She has intercourse with her sorrow | S |
| Her climax is her tears | T |
| Her Sorrow is your corpse | U |
| Together they birth babies | V |
| Pain More Pain Anger Then More Anger | K |
| Father send down a ladder | K |
| So I could climb | W |
| But let mother be | J |
| She ll climb | W |
| Without a ladder | K |
| Everyday she dies | L |
| Everyday | G |
| She s one step closer to intercourse | X |
| With your actual corpse | U |
| - | |
| In the Great God s house | A |
| There are standing tall glass angels | Y |
| Far out of my reach | C |
| They contain Fathers | Z |
| One of them looks like you | E |
| Ancient and Golden | F |
| - | |
| you can t communicate with the dead | A2 |
Soyinka Oreoluwa
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Poet's note: Grief & Sorrow
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