Negro Heroines Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFGG HHII JJKK LLMM NNOO PQRR FFCC ISPQ TTUU| Down in history we find it and in grandest works of art | A |
| How the men on fields of battle play so well the soldier's part | A |
| But I come to tell the story of relief from care and pain | B |
| Rendered them by Negro women in the Cuban War with Spain | B |
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| When the scourge of yellow fever fell upon the boys in blue | C |
| And the nation stood in wonder scarcely knowing what to do | C |
| There was found a Negro woman Mrs Curtis was her name | D |
| Wife she was of a physician with the highest social fame | D |
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| When the name of Mrs Curtis fell upon the nation's ear | E |
| And her worth on such occasions had been shown in language clear | F |
| She was summoned by McKinley to the White House there to plan | G |
| How to change the dread condition how to stay the soldier's ban | G |
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| By him there she was commissioned given fullest oversight | H |
| Of relieving fever stricken in the famous Cuban fight | H |
| With a confidence unfailing she her preparations made | I |
| Uncle Sam his backing promised true success could not be stayed | I |
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| When a call she made for helpers from the nation's busy throng | J |
| The response from Negro nurses came three hundred eighty strong | J |
| In the Catholics were also found one hundred twenty nuns | K |
| Who would brave the field as nurses for the fever stricken ones | K |
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| In this noble work of mercy were their duties done so well | L |
| That a halo of enchantment round them all is made to dwell | L |
| When we search the war department no complaint of them is found | M |
| Not a word to their discredit and to truth that record's bound | M |
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| While upon the field of battle helping stem the fever's tide | N |
| While upon that angel mission seven Negro nurses died | N |
| In this work the nuns had fallen till the same had numbered four | O |
| Thus on snowy angel pinions they the news to heaven bore | O |
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| When our boys had thrashed the Spaniards Mrs Curtis straightway sent | P |
| A petition into congress praying that a monument | Q |
| Be at Arlington erected out of sacred memory | R |
| Of the nurses who in Cuba died to make the island free | R |
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| Mrs Curtis went in person she in congress did appear | F |
| Told the story of her labors of her precious deeds of cheer | F |
| She convincingly impressed it in the nation's congress true | C |
| That for those who fell on duty still a monument was due | C |
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| An apportionment by congress for the same at once was made | I |
| Yea to make a fit memorial for the nation's honored dead | S |
| Twenty five will name the thousands of the dollars that were spent | P |
| In the nation's cemetery stands the nurses' monument | Q |
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| Mrs Curtis and her nurses have been valiant in the strife | T |
| May such heroines be favored with a long and happy life | T |
| In the face of such achievements on the nation's battle field | U |
| Prejudice is made to tremble partly too his lips are sealed | U |
Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer
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