Douglass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDCDCD| Ah Douglass we have fall'n on evil days | A |
| Such days as thou not even thou didst know | B |
| When thee the eyes of that harsh long ago | B |
| Saw salient at the cross of devious ways | A |
| And all the country heard thee with amaze | A |
| Not ended then the passionate ebb and flow | B |
| The awful tide that battled to and fro | B |
| We ride amid a tempest of dispraise | A |
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| Now when the waves of swift dissension swarm | C |
| And Honor the strong pilot lieth stark | D |
| Oh for thy voice high sounding o'er the storm | C |
| For thy strong arm to guide the shivering bark | D |
| The blast defying power of thy form | C |
| To give us comfort through the lonely dark | D |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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