The Negro Schools Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD BBE FFGG HHII JJKK LLMM| Please be silent now my country while I fill the speaker's place | A |
| While I point out some abuses that we constantly embrace | A |
| Listen with your best attention to the words that I shall say | B |
| How the Negro schools are managed in this Commonwealth today | B |
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| All the officers are white men and together they conspire | C |
| To undo the schools for Negroes of such deeds they never tire | C |
| Oft we find among the trustees men who cannot read a word | D |
| But when speaking of the Negro they are certain to be heard | D |
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| Education for the Negro they discourage and they say | B |
| 'It will bring dissatisfaction to such people ev'ry day | B |
| Make them crave for something higher such as white men should enjoy | E |
| Which will spoil the other Negroes that we have in our employ ' | - |
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| Shorter terms are recommended many times as low as two | F |
| Are the months to Negroes given in a year now this is true | F |
| Longer terms the whites are given in the same communities | G |
| They conform to such a standard of the right with perfect ease | G |
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| Poorer pay to Negro teachers driving good ones from the field | H |
| Schools are let to lowest bidders to the same they're forced to yield | H |
| Higher pay and better teachers for the white schools is the cry | I |
| While encouragement is given Negro schools to starve and die | I |
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| Rural libraries established for the whites on ev'ry side | J |
| But when application's made for Negro schools it is denied | J |
| Thus they deal with education for the mass of Negro youth | K |
| Posing still as great exponents and conservers of the truth | K |
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| From the sword of fierce Goliath we may all a lesson learn | L |
| How while planning death to others on your head it may return | L |
| In regard to schools for Negroes cease their welfare to neglect | M |
| For the same will come upon you in a way you least expect | M |
Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer
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