The Black Family Pledge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AB CDE AE FF FGH BFA BIAA A AJ

BECAUSE we have forgotten our ancestorsA
our children no longer give us honorB
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BECAUSE we have lost the path our ancestors clearedC
kneeling in perilous undergrowthD
our children cannot find their wayE
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BECAUSE we have banished the God of our ancestorsA
our children cannot prayE
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BECAUSE the old wails of our ancestors have faded beyond our hearingF
our children cannot hear us cryingF
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BECAUSE we have abandoned our wisdom of mothering and fatheringF
our befuddled children give birth to childrenG
they neither want nor understandH
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BECAUSE we have forgotten how to love the adversary is within ourB
gates an holds us up to the mirror of the world shoutingF
'Regard the loveless'A
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Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another to embrace ourB
lowliest to keep company with our loneliest to educate our illiterateI
to feed our starving to clothe our ragged to do all good thingsA
knowing that we are more than keepers of our brothers and sistersA
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We ARE our brothers and sistersA
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IN HONOR of those who toiled and implored God with golden tonguesA
and in gratitude to the same God who brought us out of hopeless desolation we make this pledgeJ

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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