Aunt Chloe's Politics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHI JKLK MNGN| Of course I don't know very much | A |
| About these politics | B |
| But I think that some who run 'em | C |
| Do mighty ugly tricks | B |
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| I've seen 'em honey fugle round | D |
| And talk so awful sweet | E |
| That you'd think them full of kindness | F |
| As an egg is full of meat | E |
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| Now I don't believe in looking | G |
| Honest people in the face | H |
| And saying when you're doing wrong | I |
| That 'I haven't sold my race ' | - |
| - | |
| When we want to school our children | J |
| If the money isn't there | K |
| Whether black or white have took it | L |
| The loss we all must share | K |
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| And this buying up each other | M |
| Is something worse than mean | N |
| Though I thinks a heap of voting | G |
| I go for voting clean | N |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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