Must Be Freed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EBEB B BB FBF GBGB HBHB BBBB IBIB JBJ BBBB EBE| The ante bellum Negro prayed | A |
| For God to intercede | B |
| And God in answer to him said | C |
| 'Your children shall be freed ' | D |
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| The hand was seen upon the wall | E |
| The fates at once decreed | B |
| That Negro bondsmen one and all | E |
| Should soon be free indeed | B |
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| 'If Abraham Lincoln's president' | B |
| The South said 'we'll secede ' | - |
| They apprehended he'd consent | B |
| For Negroes to be freed | B |
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| To battle North against the South | F |
| O'er states rights was agreed | B |
| But echo from the cannon's mouth | F |
| Said 'Negroes must be freed ' | - |
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| Confed'rates did with marked success | G |
| McClellan's steps impede | B |
| Till Abr'm Lincoln did confess | G |
| That Negroes must be freed | B |
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| The Union boys with heaven's strength | H |
| From that time did succeed | B |
| And fought with valor till at length | H |
| The Negro slaves were freed | B |
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| The Jim Crow car for Negroes made | B |
| To crush their pride indeed | B |
| Has on the harps of thinkers played | B |
| Those people must be freed | B |
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| The right of suffrage from the men | I |
| Is taken out of greed | B |
| A better day is coming when | I |
| They shall from this be freed | B |
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| Black men before the lyncher's rope | J |
| In vain for mercy plead | B |
| But justice cries 'There is a hope | J |
| From such you shall be freed ' | - |
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| From ignorance and poverty | B |
| From superstition's creed | B |
| From those who crush his liberty | B |
| The Negro must be freed | B |
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| The hand has written on the wall | E |
| The clouds must all recede | B |
| For God Whose word can never fall | E |
| Says 'Negroes must be freed ' | - |
Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer
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