On The Dedication Of Dorothy Hall, Tuskegee, Ala, April 22, 1901 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFE GHGH IJIJ KLML NONO| Not to the midnight of the gloomy past | A |
| Do we revert to day we look upon | B |
| The golden present and the future vast | A |
| Whose vistas show us visions of the dawn | C |
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| Nor shall the sorrows of departed years | D |
| The sweetness of our tranquil souls annoy | E |
| The sunshine of our hopes dispels the tears | F |
| And clears our eyes to see this later joy | E |
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| Not ever in the years that God hath given | G |
| Have we gone friendless down the thorny way | H |
| Always the clouds of pregnant black were riven | G |
| By flashes from His own eternal day | H |
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| The women of a race should be its pride | I |
| We glory in the strength our mothers had | J |
| We glory that this strength was not denied | I |
| To labor bravely nobly and be glad | J |
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| God give to these within this temple here | K |
| Clear vision of the dignity of toil | L |
| That virtue in them may its blossoms rear | M |
| Unspotted fragrant from the lowly soil | L |
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| God bless the givers for their noble deed | N |
| Shine on them with the mercy of Thy face | O |
| Who come with open hearts to help and speed | N |
| The striving women of a struggling race | O |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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