The Lynching Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEEDFAAFGG| His Spirit in smoke ascended to high heaven | A |
| His father by the cruelest way of pain | B |
| Had bidden him to his bosom once again | C |
| The awful sin remained still unforgiven | A |
| All night a bright and solitary star | D |
| Perchance the one that ever guided him | E |
| Yet gave him up at last to Fate's wild whim | E |
| Hung pitifully o'er the swinging char | D |
| Day dawned and soon the mixed crowds came to view | F |
| The ghastly body swaying in the sun | A |
| The women thronged to look but never a one | A |
| Showed sorrow in her eyes of steely blue | F |
| And little lads lynchers that were to be | G |
| Danced round the dreadful thing in fiendish glee | G |
Claude Mckay
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