The Slave-auction--a Fact Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE AGH IGJ KLM BNON PNAN QRGR| Why stands she near the auction stand | A |
| That girl so young and fair | B |
| What brings her to this dismal place | C |
| Why stands she weeping there | B |
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| Why does she raise that bitter cry | D |
| Why hangs her head with shame | E |
| As now the auctioneer's rough voice | F |
| So rudely calls her name | E |
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| But see she grasps a manly hand | A |
| And in a voice so low | G |
| As scarcely to be heard she says | H |
| 'My brother must I go ' | - |
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| A moment's pause then midst a wail | I |
| Of agonizing woe | G |
| His answer falls upon the ear | J |
| 'Yes sister you must go ' | - |
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| 'No longer can my arm defend | K |
| No longer can I save | L |
| My sister from the horrid fate | M |
| That waits her as a SLAVE ' | - |
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| Ah now I know why she is there | B |
| She came there to be sold | N |
| That lovely form that noble mind | O |
| Must be exchanged for gold | N |
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| O God my every heart string cries | P |
| Dost thou these scenes behold | N |
| In this our boasted Christian land | A |
| And must the truth be told | N |
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| Blush Christian blush for e'en the dark | Q |
| Untutored heathen see | R |
| Thy inconsistency and lo | G |
| They scorn thy God and thee | R |
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