Formerly A Slave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDED FGHG IJKJ| An idealized Portrait by E Vedder in the Spring | A |
| Exhibition of the National Academy | B |
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| The sufferance of her race is shown | C |
| And retrospect of life | D |
| Which now too late deliverance dawns upon | E |
| Yet is she not at strife | D |
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| Her children's children they shall know | F |
| The good withheld from her | G |
| And so her reverie takes prophetic cheer | H |
| In spirit she sees the stir | G |
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| Far down the depth of thousand years | I |
| And marks the revel shine | J |
| Her dusky face is lit with sober light | K |
| Sibylline yet benign | J |
Herman Melville
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