Negress In Notre Dame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FBFBADAD BCBCGDGD HDHDBDBD DDDDWhen I attended Mass today | A |
A coloured maid sat down by me | B |
And as I watched her kneel and pray | A |
Her reverence was good to see | B |
For whether there may be or no' | C |
A merciful and mighty God | D |
The love for Him is like a glow | E |
That glorifies the meanest clod | D |
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And then a starched and snotty dame | F |
Who sat the other side of me | B |
Said Monsieur is it not a shame | F |
Such things should be allowed to be | B |
In my homeland I'm proud to say | A |
We know to handle niggers right | D |
And wouldn't let a black wench pray | A |
And worship God beside a white | D |
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Her tone so tart bewilderd me | B |
For I am just a simple man | C |
A friend in every one I see | B |
Though yellow brown or black and tan | C |
For I would father children five | G |
With any comely coloured maid | D |
And lush with any man alive | G |
Of any race of any shade | D |
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Religion may be false or true | H |
The Churches may be wrong or right | D |
But if there be the Faith in you | H |
It can be like a shining light | D |
And though I lack not piety | B |
And pray my best I'm sure that God | D |
To that black wench and not to me | B |
Would give his most approving nod | D |
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Aye you may scrub him day and night | D |
You'll never change a nigger's hide | D |
But maybe he is just as white | D |
Or even more than you inside | D |
Robert Service
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