Lula Johnson's Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEE FFFFFFEE EECCGGEE FFHHIIEE| Written in Quinn Chapel A M E Church Ninth and Walnut Streets Louisville Ky Wednesday evening October th while Miss Lula E Johnson was singing Ave Maria | A |
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| I have heard the mock bird singing when the orchards were in bloom | B |
| And the sweetness of his music made the peacock don his plume | B |
| Ay I've heard cock robin redbreast chirping on a sunny day | C |
| And the skylark soaring skywards merrily sing his festal lay | C |
| And the brown thrush and the bluebird thrill their little treble notes | D |
| All the woodland songsters pouring songs of gladness from their throats | D |
| But not one has touched so deeply and not one has last so long | E |
| As the ever ringing cadence of sweet Lula Johnson's song | E |
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| When the breeze has ceased to whisper and the night is soft and still | F |
| Save the awe provoking shrilling of the ghastly whippoorwill | F |
| As the moonbeams pour down brightly on the woodland hill and dale | F |
| I oft listen at my window to the queenly nightingale | F |
| But no song of merry woodland neither hill nor dale nor dell | F |
| Has ever smote my bosom nor has made my spirit swell | F |
| Like the soul inspiring music that so softly glides along | E |
| Oh so softly and so gently in sweet Lula Johnson's song | E |
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| Oh my soul has caught the music as it softly floats along | E |
| Ah the soul entrancing music of sweet Lula Johnson's song | E |
| If my feet shall ever falter it shall cheer me on my way | C |
| Ay sustain and give me comfort make my feeble spirit gay | C |
| All we need to have my brothers in our war of peace 'gainst strife | G |
| Is the cadence of sweet music sprinkled in to sweeten life | G |
| It will sweeten all our bitters which now seem so very long | E |
| If we have it soft and gentle as sweet Lula Johnson's song | E |
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| In the lonely hours of midnight when fair Luna 'gins to pale | F |
| I have heard her songs a ringing floating softly on the gale | F |
| And I hope when dawns the morning when I draw my fleeting breath | H |
| When my friends are gathered 'round me and my eyes are closed in death | H |
| Ere you throw the sods upon me on my never heaving breast | I |
| While my body's lying silent and my soul is seeking rest | I |
| Then I'll wing straight home to glory for the journey won't be long | E |
| On the spirit wafting music of sweet Lula Johnson's song | E |
Edward Smyth Jones
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