What Mean Ye? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDF CCCC CGCG HIHI| What mean ye that ye bruise and bind | A |
| My people saith the Lord | B |
| And starve your craving brother's mind | A |
| Who asks to hear my word | C |
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| What mean ye that ye make them toil | D |
| Through long and dreary years | E |
| And shed like rain upon your soil | D |
| Their blood and bitter tears | F |
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| What mean ye that ye dare to rend | C |
| The tender mother's heart | C |
| Brothers from sisters friend from friend | C |
| How dare you bid them part | C |
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| What mean ye when God's bounteous hand | C |
| To you so much has given | G |
| That from the slave who tills your land | C |
| Ye keep both earth and heaven | G |
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| When at the judgment God shall call | H |
| Where is thy brother say | I |
| What mean ye to the Judge of all | H |
| To answer on that day | I |
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