A Notable Dinner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGH IIJ KKLM NNOO PQRR| Once the nation's chief was honored by the company of one | A |
| Who to lift a fallen people had a work of worth begun | A |
| Lofty things had he accomplished for a race so long despised | B |
| In a land where naught but color by the whites are ever prized | B |
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| Booker Washington the teacher with the president has dined | C |
| Southern whites it gave convulsions for to such they're not inclined | C |
| 'Tis the color not achievements that their fancies recognize | D |
| Whites alone receive their plaudits Negro worth they will not prize | D |
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| Roosevelt was censured sorely half the country writhed and hissed | E |
| Just because he shared his dinner with a Negro there's the gist | E |
| 'Twas the manhood not the color that the president admired | F |
| Souls of worth demand attention only such his mind desired | F |
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| 'Down with Washington the 'nigger' and with Roosevelt because | G |
| He has made of him an equal how offensive to our laws | G |
| Worthy deeds are not for black men' is the constant cry they raise | H |
| 'All advancement of such people brings proportionate dispraise ' | - |
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| Hark the press begins to clamor to the South it says 'beware | I |
| Lest equality with 'niggers' in the end we'll have to share | I |
| Anti nigger is our platform how to crush a 'nigger' man | J |
| Officers must be elected as resulting from this plan ' | - |
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| Washington is far above him any man who fails to see | K |
| Good when found upon a Negro from a lack of charity | K |
| See the Southern degradation view the monster once again | L |
| How it measures deeds of merit by the color of the skin | M |
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| Roosevelt was very careful on the choosing of a guest | N |
| Here is what he did for Tillman in his zeal to have the best | N |
| Cancelled out his invitation and his company refused | O |
| Dined the best of peoples only other classes he excused | O |
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| Down with prejudice and envy should be wafted to the breeze | P |
| For the Southern slaves of fashion need a prompt and sure release | Q |
| In the teachings of the Master while the path of earth He trod | R |
| We've a brotherhood of races and a Fatherhood of God | R |
Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer
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