The Southern Pulpit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJK| The Southern pulpit in our eyes | A |
| Descends to make a compromise | A |
| With evil things in heaven's name | B |
| The kind that brings a blush of shame | B |
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| The evils to the Negro shown | C |
| His rights that Southern men disown | C |
| We view with sorrow and distress | D |
| Its lack of effort to suppress | D |
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| Prevailing thought it cannot cross | E |
| If so it feels financial loss | E |
| The gold to it is dearer far | F |
| Than all the rights of Negroes are | F |
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| It preached that slavery was right | G |
| Upon the Scripture based its fight | G |
| Why should we now expect a change | H |
| So radical Such would be strange | H |
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| This pulpit fails to higher climb | I |
| Than sentiment at any time | I |
| Such grades of preaching cannot live | J |
| The truth alone can freedom give | K |
Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer
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