Conquest Of Prejudice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFE GHGH IJIJ KLM NONP KNKN DQDD RSRS NNNN NTNU NNNN KNKN VIVIUnto a Yorkshire school was sent | A |
A negro youth to learn to write | B |
And the first day young Juba went | A |
All gazed on him as a rare sight | B |
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But soon with altered looks askance | C |
They view his sable face and form | D |
When they perceive the scornful glance | C |
Of the head boy young Henry Orme | D |
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He in the school was first in fame | E |
Said he 'It does to me appear | F |
To be a great disgrace and shame | E |
A black should be admitted here ' | - |
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His words were quickly whispered round | G |
And every boy now looks offended | H |
The master saw the change and found | G |
That Orme a mutiny intended | H |
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Said he to Orme 'This African | I |
It seems is not by you approved | J |
I'll find a way young Englishman | I |
To have this prejudice removed | J |
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'Nearer acquaintance possibly | K |
May make you tolerate his hue | L |
At least 'tis my intent to try | M |
What a short month may chance to do ' | - |
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Young Orme and Juba then he led | N |
Into a room in which there were | O |
For each of the two boys a bed | N |
A table and a wicker chair | P |
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He locked them in secured the key | K |
That all access to them was stopt | N |
They from without can nothing see | K |
Their food is through a skylight dropt | N |
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A month in this lone chamber Orme | D |
Is sentenced during all that time | Q |
To view no other face or form | D |
Than Juba's parched by Afric clime | D |
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One word they neither of them spoke | R |
The first three days of the first week | S |
On the fourth day the ice was broke | R |
Orme was the first that deigned to speak | S |
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The dreary silence o'er both glad | N |
To hear of human voice the sound | N |
The negro and the English lad | N |
Comfort in mutual converse found | N |
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Of ships and seas and foreign coast | N |
Juba can speak for he has been | T |
A voyager and Orme can boast | N |
He London's famous town has seen | U |
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In eager talk they pass the day | N |
And borrow hours even from the night | N |
So pleasantly time passed away | N |
That they have lost their reckoning quite | N |
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And when their master set them free | K |
They thought a week was sure remitted | N |
And thanked him that their liberty | K |
Had been before the time permitted | N |
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Now Orme and Juba are good friends | V |
The school by Orme's example won | I |
Contend who most shall make amends | V |
For former slights to Afric's son | I |
Charles Lamb
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