Dashed Hope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CCDE FGHI JJKJ LLKK MNNM OPPQ| I've found a new home in the hospital | A |
| A six spring bed beside it my food blood | B |
| I've turned to a vampire always sucking blood | B |
| When crisis struck my medicine is to be rushed home hospital | A |
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| All this is because of my parents acclaimed stupid love | C |
| A love that has faded at my birth where's the love | C |
| I've been given a name Abiku | D |
| I'm the talk of many prosers and poets in different haikus | E |
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| My parents were enlightened about incompatible genotypes | F |
| Yet they said Sickled cell children is not for their type | G |
| My parents were enlightened about incompatible blood group | H |
| Yet they mocked who blood group help | I |
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| Tell Rhesus negative women and Rhesus positive men in a union | J |
| Boyfriendship girlfriendship or marriage to dread abortion | J |
| If the women want to have children of their own in that or other unions | K |
| Nne Ogbanje Iya Abiku are names awaiting them after the abortion | J |
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| All because of me Grandmas have been tagged witches | L |
| Stepmothers tagged as the most jealous witches | L |
| I've been taken to many herbalist and marabouts for incisions | K |
| My body is an Atlas with different maps of lacerations | K |
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| My hope of becoming a lawyer have been dashed | M |
| Many would be doctors nurses and lab scientist silenced | N |
| Some are stillbirth in the womb already silenced | N |
| While others on earth prematurely silenced and their hope dashed | M |
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| My parents loved and married blindly with hopeless hope | O |
| That when I'm born they'll be able to handle my crisis | P |
| I've led them to many crises beyond their envisaged crisis | P |
| Who am I to blame for my dashed hopes | Q |
Taofeeq B. Ajadi
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