Formerly A Slave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AB CDED FGHG IJKJ

An idealized Portrait by E Vedder in the SpringA
Exhibition of the National AcademyB
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The sufferance of her race is shownC
And retrospect of lifeD
Which now too late deliverance dawns uponE
Yet is she not at strifeD
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Her children's children they shall knowF
The good withheld from herG
And so her reverie takes prophetic cheerH
In spirit she sees the stirG
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Far down the depth of thousand yearsI
And marks the revel shineJ
Her dusky face is lit with sober lightK
Sibylline yet benignJ

Herman Melville



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