A Fellow Slave Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC DCCD EFFE CGGC HIIH JKKL MEEC CMMC ENNE| Pale faced is he as in the door | A |
| He stands and trembles visibly | B |
| With diffidence approaches me | B |
| And says Dear editor | C |
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| Since write you must in prose or rhyme | D |
| Expose my master's knavery | C |
| Condemn I pray the slavery | C |
| That dominates our time | D |
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| I labor for a wicked man | E |
| Who holds o'er all my being sway | F |
| Who keeps me harnessed night and day | F |
| Since work I first began | E |
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| No leisure moments do I store | C |
| Yet harsh words only will he speak | G |
| My days are his from week to week | G |
| But still he cries for more | C |
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| Oh print I beg you all I've said | H |
| And ask the world if this be right | I |
| To give the worker wage so slight | I |
| That he must want for bread | H |
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| See I have sinews powerful | J |
| And I've endurance subtle skill | K |
| Yet may not use them at my will | K |
| But live a master's tool | L |
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| But oh without avail do I | M |
| Lay bare the woes of workingmen | E |
| Who earns his living by the pen | E |
| Feels not our misery | C |
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| The pallid slave yet paler grew | C |
| And ended here his bitter cry | M |
| And thus to him I made reply | M |
| My friend you judge untrue | C |
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| My strength and skill like yours are gain | E |
| For others Sold You understand | N |
| Your master well he owns your hand | N |
| And mine he owns my brain | E |
Morris Rosenfeld
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