The Farewell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCDDDDEEBCDD BCFFGGFFBCDD BCHHIJFFBCDD BCKKLLEEBCDD BCKKMMNOBCDD BCPPCCQRBCDD

Of A Virginia Slave Mother To Her Daughters Sold Into Southern BondageA
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Gone gone sold and goneB
To the rice swamp dank and loneC
Where the slave whip ceaseless swingsD
Where the noisome insect stingsD
Where the fever demon strewsD
Poison with the falling dewsD
Where the sickly sunbeams glareE
Through the hot and misty airE
Gone gone sold and goneB
To the rice swamp dank and loneC
From Virginia's hills and watersD
Woe is me my stolen daughtersD
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Gone gone sold and goneB
To the rice swamp dank and loneC
There no mother's eye is near themF
There no mother's ear can hear themF
Never when the torturing lashG
Seams their back with many a gashG
Shall a mother's kindness bless themF
Or a mother's arms caress themF
Gone gone sold and goneB
To the rice swamp dank and loneC
From Virginia's hills and watersD
Woe is me my stolen daughtersD
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Gone gone sold and goneB
To the rice swamp dank and loneC
Oh when weary sad and slowH
From the fields at night they goH
Faint with toil and racked with painI
To their cheerless homes againJ
There no brother's voice shall greet themF
There no father's welcome meet themF
Gone gone sold and goneB
To the rice swamp dank and loneC
From Virginia's hills and watersD
Woe is me my stolen daughtersD
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Gone gone sold and goneB
To the rice swamp dank and loneC
From the tree whose shadow layK
On their childhood's place of playK
From the cool sprmg where they drankL
Rock and hill and rivulet bankL
From the solemn house of prayerE
And the holy counsels thereE
Gone gone sold and goneB
To the rice swamp dank and loneC
From Virginia's hills and watersD
Woe is me my stolen daughtersD
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Gone gone sold and goneB
To the rice swamp dank and loneC
Toiling through the weary dayK
And at night the spoiler's preyK
Oh that they had earlier diedM
Sleeping calmly side by sideM
Where the tyrant's power is o'erN
And the fetter galls no moreO
Gone gone sold and goneB
To the rice swamp dank and loneC
From Virginia's hills and watersD
Woe is me my stolen daughtersD
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Gone gone sold and goneB
To the rice swamp dank and loneC
By the holy love He bearethP
By the bruised reed He sparethP
Oh may He to whom aloneC
All their cruel wrongs are knownC
Still their hope and refuge proveQ
With a more than mother's loveR
Gone gone sold and goneB
To the rice swamp dank and loneC
From Virginia's hills and watersD
Woe is me my stolen daughtersD

John Greenleaf Whittier



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