Freedom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EAEAI care not who were vicious back of me | A |
No shadow of their sins on me is shed | B |
My will is greater than heredity | A |
I am no worm to feed upon the dead | B |
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My face my form my gestures and my voice | C |
May be reflections from a race that was | D |
But this I know and knowing it rejoice | C |
I am Myself a part of the Great Cause | D |
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I am a spirit Spirit would suffice | E |
If rightly used to set a chained world free | A |
Am I not stronger than a mortal vice | E |
That crawls the length of some ancestral tree | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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