Prejudice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKLL IIFF MMNN OOPP QQRR| How strangely blind is prejudice the Negro's greatest foe | A |
| It never fails to see the wrong but naught of good can know | A |
| 'Tis blind to all that's lofty yea to truth it is opposed | B |
| Degrading things will ope his eyes while good will keep them closed | B |
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| How cruel too is prejudice how wicked is the tongue | C |
| The evils reign supremely there the bad is ever sung | C |
| With some the Negro needs a soul with others he's a brute | D |
| In silence those remaining live and naught of this dispute | D |
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| The schools it legislates against in keeping Negroes down | E |
| Whatever tends to elevate it meets it with a frown | E |
| It gives to them the Jim Crow car and vessels on the sea | F |
| It makes the stockade to exist and take their liberty | F |
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| It makes the press to vacillate up the Negro's name | G |
| The pulpit makes a compromise with evil for the same | G |
| It makes the Pharaohs of today and seals them with its ban | H |
| It strives to close the door of hope upon the Negro man | H |
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| It causes mobs to formulate to come and go at will | I |
| At morning evening noon or night a Negro man to kill | I |
| It brings injustice to the courts when Negro men are tried | J |
| It wrings the ballot from their hands a thousand wrongs beside | J |
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| It is the country's greatest curse the nation's open sore | K |
| It slowly saps the precious life is poison to the core | K |
| Such ravages gave certain death to nations in the past | L |
| The same will lay this country low its fondest hopes will blast | L |
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| It minimizes all that's good and magnifies the ill | I |
| The devil's mission upon earth it clamors to fulfill | I |
| 'Twas prejudice that caused the death of Christ upon the tree | F |
| He knows the pangs that Negroes feel and gives them sympathy | F |
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| When men refuse to see the light a darkness is assured | M |
| Such blindness comes upon the scene as never can be cured | M |
| Contagious is the dread disease for Negroes learn to view | N |
| The white man with suspicious eyes but here's a thing that's new | N |
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| The Negro Problem of the land and all the same entails | O |
| Will be no more whene'er we find a sentiment prevails | O |
| To bury prejudice so deep it never can arise | P |
| Till all the races of the earth shall meet above the skies | P |
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| Twas God who made the Negro black the reasons are His own | Q |
| One blood the nations all the same the facts are too well known | Q |
| He also made the Golden Rule to use the neighbor well | R |
| Shall prejudice among us dwell forever who can tell | R |
Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer
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