The Negro Mother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEEFFGG HHII DDCCJKLLDDMMGGNNBBCC OOPPQQRRJJMM| dark way | A |
| That I had to climb that I had to know | B |
| In order that the race might live and grow | B |
| Look at my face dark as the night | C |
| Yet shining like the sun with love's true light | C |
| I am the dark girl who crossed the red sea | D |
| Carrying in my body the seed of the free | D |
| I am the woman who worked in the field | E |
| Bringing the cotton and the corn to yield | E |
| I am the one who labored as a slave | F |
| Beaten and mistreated for the work that I gave | F |
| Children sold away from me I'm husband sold too | G |
| No safety no love no respect was I due | G |
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| Three hundred years in the deepest South | H |
| But God put a song and a prayer in my mouth | H |
| God put a dream like steel in my soul | I |
| Now through my children I'm reaching the goal | I |
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| Now through my children young and free | D |
| I realized the blessing deed to me | D |
| I couldn't read then I couldn't write | C |
| I had nothing back there in the night | C |
| Sometimes the valley was filled with tears | J |
| But I kept trudging on through the lonely years | K |
| Sometimes the road was hot with the sun | L |
| But I had to keep on till my work was done | L |
| I had to keep on No stopping for me | D |
| I was the seed of the coming Free | D |
| I nourished the dream that nothing could smother | M |
| Deep in my breast the Negro mother | M |
| I had only hope then but now through you | G |
| Dark ones of today my dreams must come true | G |
| All you dark children in the world out there | N |
| Remember my sweat my pain my despair | N |
| Remember my years heavy with sorrow | B |
| And make of those years a torch for tomorrow | B |
| Make of my pass a road to the light | C |
| Out of the darkness the ignorance the night | C |
| Lift high my banner out of the dust | O |
| Stand like free men supporting my trust | O |
| Believe in the right let none push you back | P |
| Remember the whip and the slaver's track | P |
| Remember how the strong in struggle and strife | Q |
| Still bar you the way and deny you life | Q |
| But march ever forward breaking down bars | R |
| Look ever upward at the sun and the stars | R |
| Oh my dark children may my dreams and my prayers | J |
| Impel you forever up the great stairs | J |
| For I will be with you till no white brother | M |
| Dares keep down the children of the Negro Mother | M |
Langston Hughes
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