False Weight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EDED FDGD HDHD IDID| If thou art fair deal lady fair | A |
| And let the scales be even | B |
| Forbid the poising beam to rear | C |
| And pull thee down from heaven | D |
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| Dost thou desire to die in peace | E |
| For ev'ry sin forgiven | D |
| Give back my right thy weight decrease | E |
| And mount like mine to heaven | D |
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| Rather give over to the poor | F |
| Take ten and give eleven | D |
| Or else be fair I ask no more | G |
| 'Tis all required of heaven | D |
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| And when on thee for pay I call | H |
| Which is but four for seven | D |
| Keep nothing back but pay it all | H |
| It is not hid from heaven | D |
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| Remember hence the sentence past | I |
| The truth in scripture given | D |
| Last shall be first and first be last | I |
| In time in earth and heaven | D |
George Moses Horton
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