The Negro Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDD EFEFDD GHGHDD IJIJDD KHKHDD EAEADD| Paupertas onus visa est grave | A |
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| Cold blows the wind and while the tear | B |
| Bursts trembling from my swollen eyes | C |
| The rain's big drop quick meets it there | B |
| And on my naked bosom flies | C |
| O pity all ye sons of Joy | D |
| The little wand'ring Negro boy | D |
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| These tatter'd clothes this ice cold breast | E |
| By Winter harden'd into steel | F |
| These eyes that know not soothing rest | E |
| But speak the half of what I feel | F |
| Long long I never new one joy | D |
| The little wand'ring Negro boy | D |
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| Cannot the sigh of early grief | G |
| Move but one charitable mind | H |
| Cannot one hand afford relief | G |
| One Christian pity and be kind | H |
| Weep weep for thine was never joy | D |
| O little wand'ring Negro boy | D |
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| Is there a good which men call Pleasure | I |
| O Ozmyn would that it were thine | J |
| Give me this only precious treasure | I |
| How it would soften grief like mine | J |
| Then Ozmyn might be call'd with joy | D |
| The little wand'ring Negro boy | D |
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| My limbs these twelve long years have borne | K |
| The rage of ev'ry angry wind | H |
| Yet still does Ozmyn weep and mourn | K |
| Yet still no ease no rest can find | H |
| Then death alas must soon destroy | D |
| The little wand'ring Negro boy | D |
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| No sorrow e'er disturbs the rest | E |
| That dwells within the lonely grave | A |
| Thou best resource the wo wrung breast | E |
| E'er ask'd of Heav'n or Heav'n e'er gave | A |
| Ah then farewell vain world with joy | D |
| I die the happy Negro boy | D |
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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