The Reunion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DAEA FGHG IJK LAMA N AOPO AQRQ ASHS SAQ| Well one morning real early | A |
| I was going down the street | B |
| And I heard a stranger asking | C |
| For Missis Chloe Fleet | B |
| - | |
| There was something in his voice | D |
| That made me feel quite shaky | A |
| And when I looked right in his face | E |
| Who should it be but Jakey | A |
| - | |
| I grasped him tight and took him home | F |
| What gladness filled my cup | G |
| And I laughed and just rolled over | H |
| And laughed and just give up | G |
| - | |
| 'Where have you been O Jakey dear | I |
| Why didn't you come before | J |
| Oh when you children went away | K |
| My heart was awful sore ' | - |
| - | |
| 'Why mammy I've been on your hunt | L |
| Since ever I've been free | A |
| And I have heard from brother Ben | M |
| He's down in Tennessee | A |
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| 'He wrote me that he had a wife ' | - |
| 'And children ' 'Yes he's three ' | - |
| 'You married too ' 'Oh no indeed | N |
| I thought I'd first get free ' | - |
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| 'Then Jakey you will stay with me | A |
| And comfort my poor heart | O |
| Old Mistus got no power now | P |
| To tear us both apart | O |
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| 'I'm richer now than Mistus | A |
| Because I have got my son | Q |
| And Mister Thomas he is dead | R |
| And she's nary one | Q |
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| 'You must write to brother Benny | A |
| That he must come this fall | S |
| And we'll make the cabin bigger | H |
| And that will hold us all | S |
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| 'Tell him I want to see 'em all | S |
| Before my life do cease | A |
| And then like good old Simeon | Q |
| I hope to die in peace ' | - |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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