The Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDDDEEBCDD BCFFGGFFBCDD BCHHIJFFBCDD BCKKLLEEBCDD BCKKMMNOBCDD BCPPCCQRBCDDOf A Virginia Slave Mother To Her Daughters Sold Into Southern Bondage | A |
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Gone gone sold and gone | B |
To the rice swamp dank and lone | C |
Where the slave whip ceaseless swings | D |
Where the noisome insect stings | D |
Where the fever demon strews | D |
Poison with the falling dews | D |
Where the sickly sunbeams glare | E |
Through the hot and misty air | E |
Gone gone sold and gone | B |
To the rice swamp dank and lone | C |
From Virginia's hills and waters | D |
Woe is me my stolen daughters | D |
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Gone gone sold and gone | B |
To the rice swamp dank and lone | C |
There no mother's eye is near them | F |
There no mother's ear can hear them | F |
Never when the torturing lash | G |
Seams their back with many a gash | G |
Shall a mother's kindness bless them | F |
Or a mother's arms caress them | F |
Gone gone sold and gone | B |
To the rice swamp dank and lone | C |
From Virginia's hills and waters | D |
Woe is me my stolen daughters | D |
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Gone gone sold and gone | B |
To the rice swamp dank and lone | C |
Oh when weary sad and slow | H |
From the fields at night they go | H |
Faint with toil and racked with pain | I |
To their cheerless homes again | J |
There no brother's voice shall greet them | F |
There no father's welcome meet them | F |
Gone gone sold and gone | B |
To the rice swamp dank and lone | C |
From Virginia's hills and waters | D |
Woe is me my stolen daughters | D |
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Gone gone sold and gone | B |
To the rice swamp dank and lone | C |
From the tree whose shadow lay | K |
On their childhood's place of play | K |
From the cool sprmg where they drank | L |
Rock and hill and rivulet bank | L |
From the solemn house of prayer | E |
And the holy counsels there | E |
Gone gone sold and gone | B |
To the rice swamp dank and lone | C |
From Virginia's hills and waters | D |
Woe is me my stolen daughters | D |
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Gone gone sold and gone | B |
To the rice swamp dank and lone | C |
Toiling through the weary day | K |
And at night the spoiler's prey | K |
Oh that they had earlier died | M |
Sleeping calmly side by side | M |
Where the tyrant's power is o'er | N |
And the fetter galls no more | O |
Gone gone sold and gone | B |
To the rice swamp dank and lone | C |
From Virginia's hills and waters | D |
Woe is me my stolen daughters | D |
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Gone gone sold and gone | B |
To the rice swamp dank and lone | C |
By the holy love He beareth | P |
By the bruised reed He spareth | P |
Oh may He to whom alone | C |
All their cruel wrongs are known | C |
Still their hope and refuge prove | Q |
With a more than mother's love | R |
Gone gone sold and gone | B |
To the rice swamp dank and lone | C |
From Virginia's hills and waters | D |
Woe is me my stolen daughters | D |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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