The Night Of Death Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JEKE JLML NOJO JPKP JBJB JQRQ SKJK DTUT VWJW DXYX SZA2Z B2C2D2C2 SE2SE2 DOKO RE2F2E2 KXRX| Veil not thine eyes nor close thy lips | A |
| Nor speak with bated breath | B |
| This evil shall not always last | C |
| The end of it is death | B |
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| Avert the doom that crime must bring | D |
| Upon a guilty land | E |
| Strong in the strength that God supplies | F |
| For truth and justice stand | E |
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| For Christless men with reckless hands | G |
| Are sowing round thy path | H |
| The tempests wild that yet shall break | I |
| In whirlwinds of God's wrath | H |
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| Twas a night of dreadful horror | J |
| Death was sweeping through the land | E |
| And the wings of dark destruction | K |
| Were outstretched from strand to strand | E |
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| Strong men's hearts grew faint with terror | J |
| As the tempest and the waves | L |
| Wrecked their homes and swept them down ward | M |
| Suddenly to yawning graves | L |
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| 'Mid the wastes of ruined households | N |
| And the tempest's wild alarms | O |
| Stood a terror stricken mother | J |
| With a child within her arms | O |
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| Other children huddled 'round her | J |
| Each one nestling in her heart | P |
| Swift in thought and swift in action | K |
| She at least from one must part | P |
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| Then she said unto her daughter | J |
| Strive to save one child from death | B |
| Which one said the anxious daughter | J |
| As she stood with bated breath | B |
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| Oh the anguish of that mother | J |
| What despair was in her eye | Q |
| All her little ones were precious | R |
| Which one should she leave to die | Q |
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| Then outspake the brother Bennie | S |
| I will take the little one | K |
| No exclaimed the anxious mother | J |
| No my child it can't be done | K |
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| See my boy the waves are rising | D |
| Save yourself and leave the child | T |
| I will trust in Christ he answered | U |
| Grasped the little one and smiled | T |
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| Through the roar of wind and waters | V |
| Ever and anon she cried | W |
| But throughout the night of terror | J |
| Never Bennie's voice replied | W |
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| But above the waves' wild surging | D |
| He had found a safe retreat | X |
| As if God had sent an angel | Y |
| Just to guide his wandering feet | X |
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| When the storm had spent its fury | S |
| And the sea gave up its dead | Z |
| She was mourning for her loved ones | A2 |
| Lost amid that night of dread | Z |
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| While her head was bowed in anguish | B2 |
| On her ear there fell a voice | C2 |
| Bringing surcease to her sorrow | D2 |
| Bidding all her heart rejoice | C2 |
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| Didn't I tell you true said Bennie | S |
| And his eyes were full of light | E2 |
| When I told you God would help me | S |
| Through the dark and dreadful night | E2 |
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| And he placed the little darling | D |
| Safe within his mother's arms | O |
| Feeling Christ had been his guardian | K |
| 'Mid the dangers and alarms | O |
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| Oh for faith so firm and precious | R |
| In the darkest saddest night | E2 |
| Till life's gloom encircled shadows | F2 |
| Fade in everlasting light | E2 |
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| And upon the mount of vision | K |
| We our loved and lost shall greet | X |
| With earth's wildest storms behind us | R |
| And its cares beneath our feet | X |
Frances E. W. Harper
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