Emancipation Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD DDEEEEDD FGHH IIJJ| The sixties brought a clash of arms | A |
| The mem'ry of it thrills and charms | A |
| While Negro slaves for freedom prayed | B |
| Till Heaven bowed to give them aid | B |
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| The God of nations God of right | C |
| Kept back success within the fight | C |
| Till Lincoln vowed on bended knee | D |
| To set the Negro bondsmen free | D |
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| The first of January see | D |
| In eighteen hundred sixty three | D |
| The first Emancipation Day | E |
| When mad oppressors lost their sway | E |
| The sun of freedom rose that day | E |
| The night of bondage drove away | E |
| When sainted Lincoln did decree | D |
| That slaves forever should be free | D |
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| As years of time have come and gone | F |
| For each the Negro race has borne | G |
| Abundant fruit in freedom's name | H |
| That will not bring the nation shame | H |
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| Emancipation Day so great | I |
| With joy we meet to celebrate | I |
| The Sun of Righteousness we hail | J |
| Who died that freedom might prevail | J |
Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer
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