Evening Hymn In The Hovels Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDECFGFGCHIHIJ| 'WE sow the fertile seed and then we reap it | A |
| We thresh the golden grain we knead the bread | B |
| Others that eat are glad In store they keep it | A |
| While we hunger outside with hearts like lead | B |
| Hallelujah | C |
| 'We hew the stone and saw it rear the city | D |
| Others inhabit there in pleasant ease | E |
| We have no thing to ask of them save pity | D |
| No answer they to give but what they please | E |
| Hallelujah | C |
| 'Is it for ever fathers say and mothers | F |
| That we must toil and never know the light | G |
| Is it for ever sisters say and brothers | F |
| That they must grind us dead here in the night | G |
| Hallelujah | C |
| 'O we who sow reap knead shall we not also | H |
| Have strength and pleasure of the food we make | I |
| O we who hew build deck shall we not also | H |
| The happiness that we have given partake | I |
| Hallelujah ' | J |
Francis William Lauderdale Adams
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