A Dedication Poem by Chibueze Oscar Osuji
A Dedication
To you, dear, distance is no barrier
Your name still throb in the heart of my mind,
Western nights roll you, in a carrier
T'wards my home-stead with the gentlest of wind.
O, thoughts of you are reckon numberless,
Starry and great: a deep-delv'd wanted yoke;
Sighting you in my time of drowsiness
Whence placid Sleep beckons her leaden-stroke.
'Tis not the rich melody in your voice
Nor the fluffy 'glantine strides of your feet
Whilst they stroll'd around the path in mute-noise
Nay, 'tis not a part of you that entreat.
'Tis, the parallel wholesome of your being,
Is this love or an affectionate thing?
The poem, make use of several Literary devices, such as: Metaphor, personification, hyberbole, rhetorics etc. This is aimed at giving the poem a dignified standard approach, aiding it to give a far more description i.e by assisting the poem by elaborating words, lines, and the whole poem.
The poem is a sonnet. Written in the specified English (shakespearean) sonnet. It involves three quatrains, and one heroic couplet, it has a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg; every line is written and measured using iambic pentameter. For example my sonnet above, each line in it is an iambic pentameter, though specific sonnets may vary on pentameter, for example sonnets involving feminine rhyming approach may vary on iambic pentameter lines or sonnet using trochaic may not contain iambs.
My poem(sonnet) is titled: 'A Dedication' because it is dedicated to somebody.
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