Learning To Read Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKHK LMAM NJOJ PQRQ SMCT PUFU VWMX YZXZ| Very soon the Yankee teachers | A |
| Came down and set up school | B |
| But oh how the Rebs did hate it | C |
| It was agin' their rule | B |
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| Our masters always tried to hide | D |
| Book learning from our eyes | E |
| Knowledge did'nt agree with slavery | F |
| 'Twould make us all too wise | E |
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| But some of us would try to steal | G |
| A little from the book | H |
| And put the words together | I |
| And learn by hook or crook | H |
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| I remember Uncle Caldwell | J |
| Who took pot liquor fat | K |
| And greased the pages of his book | H |
| And hid it in his hat | K |
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| And had his master ever seen | L |
| The leaves upon his head | M |
| He'd have thought them greasy papers | A |
| But nothing to be read | M |
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| And there was Mr Turner's Ben | N |
| Who heard the children spell | J |
| And picked the words right up by heart | O |
| And learned to read 'em well | J |
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| Well the Northern folks kept sending | P |
| The Yankee teachers down | Q |
| And they stood right up and helped us | R |
| Though Rebs did sneer and frown | Q |
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| And I longed to read my Bible | S |
| For precious words it said | M |
| But when I begun to learn it | C |
| Folks just shook their heads | T |
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| And said there is no use trying | P |
| Oh Chloe you're too late | U |
| But as I was rising sixty | F |
| I had no time to wait | U |
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| So I got a pair of glasses | V |
| And straight to work I went | W |
| And never stopped till I could read | M |
| The hymns and Testament | X |
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| Then I got a little cabin | Y |
| A place to call my own | Z |
| And I felt as independent | X |
| As the queen upon her throne | Z |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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