The Change Has Come Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCC AADDDEE| The change has come and Helen sleeps | A |
| Not sleeps but wakes to greater deeps | A |
| Of wisdom glory truth and light | B |
| Than ever blessed her seeking sight | B |
| In this low long lethargic night | B |
| Worn out with strife | C |
| Which men call life | C |
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| The change has come and who would say | A |
| I would it were not come to day | A |
| What were the respite till to morrow | D |
| Postponement of a certain sorrow | D |
| From which each passing day would borrow | D |
| Let grief be dumb | E |
| The change has come | E |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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