The Black Family Pledge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDE AE FF FGH BFA BIAA A AJBECAUSE we have forgotten our ancestors | A |
our children no longer give us honor | B |
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BECAUSE we have lost the path our ancestors cleared | C |
kneeling in perilous undergrowth | D |
our children cannot find their way | E |
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BECAUSE we have banished the God of our ancestors | A |
our children cannot pray | E |
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BECAUSE the old wails of our ancestors have faded beyond our hearing | F |
our children cannot hear us crying | F |
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BECAUSE we have abandoned our wisdom of mothering and fathering | F |
our befuddled children give birth to children | G |
they neither want nor understand | H |
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BECAUSE we have forgotten how to love the adversary is within our | B |
gates an holds us up to the mirror of the world shouting | F |
'Regard the loveless' | A |
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Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another to embrace our | B |
lowliest to keep company with our loneliest to educate our illiterate | I |
to feed our starving to clothe our ragged to do all good things | A |
knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sisters | A |
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We ARE our brothers and sisters | A |
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IN HONOR of those who toiled and implored God with golden tongues | A |
and in gratitude to the same God who brought us out of hopeless desolation we make this pledge | J |
Maya Angelou
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marquuse fletcher: it was truee
jessy mae: Timeless summation of us. We should make this known to our communities, large and small and take THE PLEDGE.
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