Why Negroes Don't Unite Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEE FFGG HHII JJKK LLMM NNOO| Why of all the many races in the country where we live | A |
| Do we find so little union as the Negro race can give | B |
| Is it lack of love or color who will give the reason true | C |
| Why they cherish opposition more than other peoples do | C |
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| We'll examine for a moment how the Negro race is made | D |
| Now we find them all complexions any hue and ev'ry shade | D |
| Scraps of all the human races in among them we can find | E |
| All the many dispositions ev'ry nation of its kind | E |
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| Ev'ry tribe will hang together though among the Negroes found | F |
| Which will bring about dissensions on all questions that abound | F |
| Ev'ry blood must have a 'say so ' red or yellow white or black | G |
| Differ always in opinion racial union always lack | G |
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| Hark the whites of this assembly to a special plan agree | H |
| Lo the red men now are holding their opinion don't you see | H |
| Aye the blacks must have a hearing in the question of today | I |
| Yellow folks compose a factor and the same will have a say | I |
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| Scripture tells how Ham was tickled by the shame of Noah's plight | J |
| How his brothers with a mantle shielded Noah from the light | J |
| Now we find that Ham's descendants keep disgraces well exposed | K |
| While the children of the others keep a shameful secret closed | K |
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| From inheritance the Negro gets his levity and mirth | L |
| More than any other species of the races of the earth | L |
| He rejoices in reporting what will bring his neighbor shame | M |
| Charity extends her mantle and the others cover blame | M |
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| When the race discards the fragments by the others thrown aside | N |
| And suppresses altogether sinful levity and pride | N |
| Then begins a cultivation of a union of the race | O |
| That will strengthen all its borders which for naught will yield apace | O |
Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer
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