Alexander Crummell'dead Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCBCBDDEEE AFCCCGGFHF| Back to the breast of thy mother | A |
| Child of the earth | B |
| E'en her caress can not smother | A |
| What thou hast done | C |
| Follow the trail of the westering sun | C |
| Over the earth | B |
| Thy light and his were as one | C |
| Sun in thy worth | B |
| Unto a nation whose sky was as night | D |
| Camest thou holily bearing thy light | D |
| And the dawn came | E |
| In it thy fame | E |
| Flashed up in a flame | E |
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| Back to the breast of thy mother | A |
| To rest | F |
| Long hast thou striven | C |
| Dared where the hills by the lightning of heaven were riven | C |
| Go now pure shriven | C |
| Who shall come after thee out of the clay | G |
| Learned one and leader to show us the way | G |
| Who shall rise up when the world gives the test | F |
| Think thou no more of this | H |
| Rest | F |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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