One Being Brought From Africa To America Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEE| '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 sought now knew | B |
| Some view our sable race with scornful eye | C |
| 'Their colour is a diabolic die ' | D |
| Remember Christians Negroes black as Cain | E |
| May be refin'd and join th' angelic train | E |
Phillis Wheatley
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