Million Man March Poem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DDEFGHF ABCB EEIIJKKLM ABCB NNAOPPQQ ERSTUVWHXYZYH A2M Q| The night has been long | A |
| The wound has been deep | B |
| The pit has been dark | C |
| And the walls have been steep | B |
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| Under a dead blue sky on a distant beach | D |
| I was dragged by my braids just beyond your reach | D |
| Your hands were tied your mouth was bound | E |
| You couldn't even call out my name | F |
| You were helpless and so was I | G |
| But unfortunately throughout history | H |
| You've worn a badge of shame | F |
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| I say the night has been long | A |
| The wound has been deep | B |
| The pit has been dark | C |
| And the walls have been steep | B |
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| But today voices of old spirit sound | E |
| Speak to us in words profound | E |
| Across the years across the centuries | I |
| Across the oceans and across the seas | I |
| They say draw near to one another | J |
| Save your race | K |
| You have been paid for in a distant place | K |
| The old ones remind us that slavery's chains | L |
| Have paid for our freedom again and again | M |
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| The night has been long | A |
| The pit has been deep | B |
| The night has been dark | C |
| And the walls have been steep | B |
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| The hells we have lived through and live through still | N |
| Have sharpened our senses and toughened our will | N |
| The night has been long | A |
| This morning I look through your anguish | O |
| Right down to your soul | P |
| I know that with each other we can make ourselves whole | P |
| I look through the posture and past your disguise | Q |
| And see your love for family in your big brown eyes | Q |
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| I say clap hands and let's come together in this meeting ground | E |
| I say clap hands and let's deal with each other with love | R |
| I say clap hands and let us get from the low road of indifference | S |
| Clap hands let us come together and reveal our hearts | T |
| Let us come together and revise our spirits | U |
| Let us come together and cleanse our souls | V |
| Clap hands let's leave the preening | W |
| And stop impostering our own history | H |
| Clap hands call the spirits back from the ledge | X |
| Clap hands let us invite joy into our conversation | Y |
| Courtesy into our bedrooms | Z |
| Gentleness into our kitchen | Y |
| Care into our nursery | H |
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| The ancestors remind us despite the history of pain | A2 |
| We are a going on people who will rise again | M |
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| And still we rise | Q |
Maya Angelou
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