The Slave Singing At Midnight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEFGGDDHHDDHHDD IIDD| Loud he sang the psalm of David | A |
| He a Negro and enslaved | B |
| Sang of Israel's victory | C |
| Sang of Zion bright and free | C |
| In that hour when night is calmest | D |
| Sang he from the Hebrew Psalmist | D |
| In a voice so sweet and clear | E |
| That I could not choose but hear | F |
| Songs of triumph and ascriptions | G |
| Such as reached the swart Egyptians | G |
| When upon the Red Sea coast | D |
| Perished Pharaoh and his host | D |
| And the voice of his devotion | H |
| Filled my soul with strange emotion | H |
| For its tones by turns were glad | D |
| Sweetly solemn wildly sad | D |
| Paul and Silas in their prison | H |
| Sang of Christ the Lord arisen | H |
| And an earthquake's arm of might | D |
| Broke their dungeon gates at night | D |
| But alas what holy angel | I |
| Brings the Slave this glad evangel | I |
| And what earthquake's arm of might | D |
| Breaks his dungeon gates at night | D |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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