The Black Mammy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH| O whitened head entwined in turban gay | A |
| O kind black face O crude but tender hand | B |
| O foster mother in whose arms there lay | A |
| The race whose sons are masters of the land | B |
| It was thine arms that sheltered in their fold | C |
| It was thine eyes that followed through the length | D |
| Of infant days these sons In times of old | C |
| It was thy breast that nourished them to strength | D |
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| So often hast thou to thy bosom pressed | E |
| The golden head the face and brow of snow | F |
| So often has it 'gainst thy broad dark breast | E |
| Lain set off like a quickened cameo | F |
| Thou simple soul as cuddling down that babe | G |
| With thy sweet croon so plaintive and so wild | H |
| Came ne'er the thought to thee swift like a stab | I |
| That it some day might crush thine own black child | H |
James Weldon Johnson
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