A Cry From South Africa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGG HHIIJJKKLL MMNNOOHHPPQQRRSTHHUU VVWWXXYYZZA2B2| On building a chapel at Cape Town for the Negro slaves of the colony in | A |
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| Afric from her remotest strand | B |
| Lifts to high heaven one fetter'd hand | B |
| And to the utmost of her chain | C |
| Stretches the other o'er the main | C |
| Then kneeling 'midst ten thousand slaves | D |
| Utters a cry across the waves | D |
| Of power to reach to either pole | E |
| And pierce like conscience through the soul | E |
| Though dreary faint and low the sound | F |
| Like life blood gurgling from a wound | F |
| As if her heart before it broke | G |
| Had found a human tongue and spoke | G |
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| Britain not now I ask of thee | H |
| Freedom the right of bond and free | H |
| Let Mammon hold while Mammon can | I |
| The bones and blood of living man | I |
| Let tyrants scorn while tyrants dare | J |
| The shrieks and writhings of despair | J |
| An end will come it will not wait | K |
| Bonds yokes and scourges have their date | K |
| Slavery itself must pass away | L |
| And be a tale of yesterday | L |
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| But now I urge a dearer claim | M |
| And urge it by a mightier name | M |
| Hope of the world on thee I call | N |
| By the great Father of us all | N |
| By the Redeemer of our race | O |
| And by the Spirit of all grace | O |
| Turn not Britannia from my plea | H |
| So help Thee GOD as Thou help'st me | H |
| Mine outcast children come to light | P |
| From darkness and go down in night | P |
| A night of more mysterious gloom | Q |
| Than that which wrapt them in the womb | Q |
| Oh that the womb had been the grave | R |
| Of every being born a slave | R |
| Oh that the grave itself might close | S |
| The slave's unutterable woes | T |
| But what beyond that gulf may be | H |
| What portion in eternity | H |
| For those who live to curse their breath | U |
| And die without a hope in death | U |
| I know not and I dare not think | V |
| Yet while I shudder o'er the brink | V |
| Of that unfathomable deep | W |
| Where wrath lies chain'd and judgments sleep | W |
| To thee thou paradise of isles | X |
| Where mercy in full glory smiles | X |
| Eden of lands o'er all the rest | Y |
| By blessing others doubly blest | Y |
| To thee I lift my weeping eye | Z |
| Send me the Gospel or I die | Z |
| The word of CHRIST's salvation give | A2 |
| That I may hear his voice and live | B2 |
James Montgomery
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