On Liberty And Slavery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC DEDE FGFG HIHI JCKC LMLN OPOP QIQI RCRC| Alas and am I born for this | A |
| To wear this slavish chain | B |
| Deprived of all created bliss | A |
| Through hardship toil and pain | B |
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| How long have I in bondage lain | B |
| And languished to be free | C |
| Alas and must I still complain | B |
| Deprived of liberty | C |
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| Oh Heaven and is there no relief | D |
| This side the silent grave | E |
| To soothe the pain to quell the grief | D |
| And anguish of a slave | E |
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| Come Liberty thou cheerful sound | F |
| Roll through my ravished ears | G |
| Come let my grief in joys be drowned | F |
| And drive away my fears | G |
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| Say unto foul oppression Cease | H |
| Ye tyrants rage no more | I |
| And let the joyful trump of peace | H |
| Now bid the vassal soar | I |
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| Soar on the pinions of that dove | J |
| Which long has cooed for thee | C |
| And breathed her notes from Afric's grove | K |
| The sound of Liberty | C |
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| Oh Liberty thou golden prize | L |
| So often sought by blood | M |
| We crave thy sacred sun to rise | L |
| The gift of nature's God | N |
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| Bid Slavery hide her haggard face | O |
| And barbarism fly | P |
| I scorn to see the sad disgrace | O |
| In which enslaved I lie | P |
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| Dear Liberty upon thy breast | Q |
| I languish to respire | I |
| And like the Swan unto her nest | Q |
| I'd to thy smiles retire | I |
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| Oh blest asylum heavenly balm | R |
| Unto thy boughs I flee | C |
| And in thy shades the storm shall calm | R |
| With songs of Liberty | C |
George Moses Horton
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