Injustice Of The Courts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCD EEFF GGHH I CC JJKK LLMMNNO PPQQRSSTTUUV WWFFRXXYY| Whites alone upon the jury in a number of the states | A |
| Thus they crush a helpless Negro with their prejudicial hates | A |
| Legal ills they thrust upon him and the tale is passing sad | B |
| Equal rights with white men Never Color phobia makes them mad | B |
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| 'Tis the training of the children every Negro to suppress | C |
| They their spleen may vent upon him and he happy none the less | C |
| They will boast aloud in anger if by Negroes they are crossed | D |
| 'If we shoot or kill a Negro not a cent will be the cost ' | - |
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| Juries represent the people and their sentiments make known | E |
| When a Negro comes in question there's discrimination shown | E |
| They are bold to make assertion that they will not do the same | F |
| For a Negro as a white man and no feeling comes of shame | F |
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| Jurymen have made confession after trial had been made | G |
| Of a Negro and 'He's guilty ' was the verdict there displayed | G |
| Stern remorse so touched the conscience they the story did relate | H |
| How the verdict they had rendered was to stay the dying fate | H |
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| 'It was hard to say him guilty for the man we thought was clear | I |
| But a mob was making clamors that were terrible to hear ' | - |
| 'Punishment or death ' it shouted and around began to press | C |
| And of two impending evils we have chosen him the less | C |
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| Thus we legalized the lynchers we their words to court have brought | J |
| And the innocent convicted how revolting is the thought | J |
| When a mob has forced a jury to a stand against the right | K |
| All the waters of the ocean cannot make the conscience white | K |
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| Once a Negro girl was saucy and the wife the husband told | L |
| Who in haste arraigned the servant and began to swear and scold | L |
| Then he whipped her without mercy straightway she to law applied | M |
| Passing strange they found him guilty and the judge was sorely tried | M |
| This he said in making sentence 'No disfavor comes to you | N |
| You have only done as others or as I myself would do | N |
| If your servants vex the mistress thrash them out again I say | O |
| Go to jail ten minutes only and a fine of five cents pay ' | - |
| If a judge is conscientious then the people vote him out | P |
| His partiality to white men they must know beyond a doubt | P |
| No equality for Negroes in the law the world must know | Q |
| If he fails to make distinctions from the bench they'll have him go | Q |
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| This injustice is a cancer in the nation's breast it lives | S |
| Quietly and unmolested awful is the death it gives | S |
| It results from color phobia which the God of right defies | T |
| Slaves of prejudice take warning pause before the nation dies | T |
| All the land is running riot laws are trampled in the face | U |
| Negroes must be law abiding whites alone the laws debase | U |
| Wrong upon itself is coiling hissing serpent of the times | V |
| Whites in self defense are crying 'Shield us from our people's crimes ' | - |
| Barbarism fills the country all for safety take alarm | W |
| From the lowest to the highest no one now is free from harm | W |
| Anarchy is rife among us all resulting from the same | F |
| Gross injustice of the court room brings the nation into shame | F |
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| Lawlessness is at a premium woeful penalty it brings | X |
| Relic of the middle ages is the present state of things | X |
| To the winds we now are sowing and the whirl wind comes at length | Y |
| Evils cast upon the waters come again with added strength | Y |
Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer
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