Song Of The Son Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAA CDDCC EFFGG HIIH CCCC| Pour O pour that parting soul in song | A |
| O pour it in the sawdust glow of night | B |
| Into the velvet pine smoke air to night | B |
| And let the valley carry it along | A |
| And let the valley carry it along | A |
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| O land and soil red soil and sweet gum tree | C |
| So scant of grass so profligate of pines | D |
| Now just before an epoch's sun declines | D |
| Thy son in time I have returned to thee | C |
| Thy son I have in time returned to thee | C |
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| In time for though the sun is setting on | E |
| A song lit race of slaves it has not set | F |
| Though late O soil it is not too late yet | F |
| To catch thy plaintive soul leaving soon gone | G |
| Leaving to catch thy plaintive soul soon gone | G |
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| O Negro slaves dark purple ripened plums | H |
| Squeezed and bursting in the pine wood air | I |
| Passing before they stripped the old tree bare | I |
| One plum was saved for me one seed becomes | H |
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| An everlasting song a singing tree | C |
| Caroling softly souls of slavery | C |
| What they were and what they are to me | C |
| Caroling softly souls of slavery | C |
Jean Toomer
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