Answer To Prayer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CC DD CC EE EE FF GG CC EE| Der ain't no use in sayin' de Lawd won't answer prah | A |
| If you knows how to ax Him I knows He's bound to heah | B |
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| De trouble is some people don't ax de proper way | C |
| Den w'en dey git's no answer dey doubts de use to pray | C |
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| You got to use egzac'ly de 'spressions an' de words | D |
| To show dat 'tween yo' faith an' works you 'pends on works two thirds | D |
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| Now one time I remember jes how long I won't say | C |
| I thought I'd like a turkey to eat on Chris'mus day | C |
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| Fu' weeks I dreamed 'bout turkeys a struttin' in der pride | E |
| But seed no way to get one widout de Lawd pervide | E |
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| An' so I went to prayin' I pray'd wid all my might | E |
| Lawd sen' to me a turkey I pray'd bofe day an' night | E |
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| Lawd sen' to me a turkey a big one if you please | F |
| I 'clar to heaben I pray'd so much I mos' wore out ma knees | F |
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| I pray'd dat prah so often I pray'd dat prah so long | G |
| Yet didn't git no turkey I know'd 'twas sump'n wrong | G |
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| So on de night 'fore Chris'mus w'en I got down to pray | C |
| Lawd sen' me to a turkey I had de sense to say | C |
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| Lawd sen' me to a turkey I know dat prah was right | E |
| An' it was sholy answer'd I got de bird dat night | E |
James Weldon Johnson
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