The Witnesses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI AJAA KLKL AKAK AAAA| In Ocean's wide domains | A |
| Half buried in the sands | B |
| Lie skeletons in chains | A |
| With shackled feet and hands | B |
| - | |
| Beyond the fall of dews | C |
| Deeper than plummet lies | D |
| Float ships with all their crews | C |
| No more to sink nor rise | D |
| - | |
| There the black Slave ship swims | E |
| Freighted with human forms | F |
| Whose fettered fleshless limbs | E |
| Are not the sport of storms | F |
| - | |
| These are the bones of Slaves | G |
| They gleam from the abyss | H |
| They cry from yawning waves | G |
| We are the Witnesses | I |
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| Within Earth's wide domains | A |
| Are markets for men's lives | J |
| Their necks are galled with chains | A |
| Their wrists are cramped with gyves | A |
| - | |
| Dead bodies that the kite | K |
| In deserts makes its prey | L |
| Murders that with affright | K |
| Scare school boys from their play | L |
| - | |
| All evil thoughts and deeds | A |
| Anger and lust and pride | K |
| The foulest rankest weeds | A |
| That choke Life's groaning tide | K |
| - | |
| These are the woes of Slaves | A |
| They glare from the abyss | A |
| They cry from unknown graves | A |
| We are the Witnesses | A |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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