The Lawyers' Ways Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE FGCGCHCH IJFKFLML NOCOOPPP| I 've been list'nin' to them lawyers | A |
| In the court house up the street | B |
| An' I 've come to the conclusion | C |
| That I'm most completely beat | B |
| Fust one feller riz to argy | D |
| An' he boldly waded in | E |
| As he dressed the tremblin' pris'ner | F |
| In a coat o' deep dyed sin | E |
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| Why he painted him all over | F |
| In a hue o' blackest crime | G |
| An' he smeared his reputation | C |
| With the thickest kind o' grime | G |
| Tell I found myself a wond'rin' | C |
| In a misty way and dim | H |
| How the Lord had come to fashion | C |
| Sich an awful man as him | H |
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| Then the other lawyer started | I |
| An' with brimmin' tearful eyes | J |
| Said his client was a martyr | F |
| That was brought to sacrifice | K |
| An' he give to that same pris'ner | F |
| Every blessed human grace | L |
| Tell I saw the light o' virtue | M |
| Fairly shinin' from his face | L |
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| Then I own 'at I was puzzled | N |
| How sich things could rightly be | O |
| An' this aggervatin' question | C |
| Seems to keep a puzzlin' me | O |
| So will some one please inform me | O |
| An' this mystery unroll | P |
| How an angel an' a devil | P |
| Can persess the self same soul | P |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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