O, Pity The Slave Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCD EFEFCBCB GHGHGIGI| I pity the slave mother careworn and weary | A |
| Who sighs as she presses her babe to her breast | B |
| I lament her sad fate all so hopeless and dreary | A |
| I lament for her woes and her wrongs unredressed | B |
| O who can imagine her heart's deep emotion | C |
| As she thinks of her children about to be sold | B |
| You may picture the bounds of the rock girdled ocean | C |
| But the grief of that mother can never be known | D |
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| The mildew of slavery has blighted each blossom | E |
| That ever has bloomed in her path way below | F |
| It has froze every fountain that gushed in her bosom | E |
| And chilled her heart's verdure with pitiless woe | F |
| Her parents her kindred all crushed by oppression | C |
| Her husband still doomed in its desert to stay | B |
| No arm to protect from the tyrant's aggression | C |
| She must weep as she treads on her desolate way | B |
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| O slave mother hope see the nation is shaking | G |
| The arm of the Lord is awake to thy wrong | H |
| The slave holder's heart now with terror is quaking | G |
| Salvation and Mercy to Heaven belong | H |
| Rejoice O rejoice for the child thou art rearing | G |
| May one day lift up its unmanacled form | I |
| While hope to thy heart like the rain bow so cheering | G |
| Is born like the rain bow 'mid tempest and storm | I |
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