Formerly A Slave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDED FGHG IJKJAn 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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