Why Is It? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GHIJ KKLL MNOO PPAA| Why is it so Dear Prince of Peace | A |
| That wrongs to Negroes never cease | A |
| Are they disloyal to thy name | B |
| And thus are punished for the same | B |
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| Is this thy training school on earth | C |
| To mould a race of truest worth | C |
| Pray is it thus that lives are pruned | D |
| And sanctified for heaven tuned | D |
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| Thou art the refuge of the race | E |
| That all its troubles will efface | E |
| Wilt thou incline the wayward heart | F |
| To keep thy law in ev'ry part | F |
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| 'Tis needful that offences come | G |
| But woe unto the man by whom | H |
| They come the evil hearts to chain | I |
| And drive them back to thee again | J |
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| For such afflictions we are told | K |
| Bring people nearer to the fold | K |
| If this be true then teach them now | L |
| To such conditions here to bow | L |
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| Thy chosen people suffer here | M |
| Such chastenings as children dear | N |
| With patience sweet in peace and love | O |
| Prepare their souls for life above | O |
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| They suffer from refining pains | P |
| The kinds that raise to highest planes | P |
| Can this be why Dear Prince of Peace | A |
| That wrongs to Negroes never cease | A |
Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer
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