On Being Brought From Africa To America Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land | A |
Taught my benighted soul to understand | A |
That there's a God that there's a Saviour too | B |
Once I redemption neither fought now knew | B |
Some view our sable race with scornful eye | C |
Their colour is a diabolic die | C |
Remember Christians Negroes black as Cain | D |
May be refin'd and join th' angelic train | D |
Phillis Wheatley
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