Poems On The Slave Trade - Sonnet Iv Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEBEBDB| 'Tis night the mercenary tyrants sleep | A |
| As undisturb'd as Justice but no more | B |
| The wretched Slave as on his native shore | B |
| Rests on his reedy couch he wakes to weep | A |
| Tho' thro' the toil and anguish of the day | C |
| No tear escap'd him not one suffering groan | D |
| Beneath the twisted thong he weeps alone | D |
| In bitterness thinking that far away | C |
| Tho' the gay negroes join the midnight song | E |
| Tho' merriment resounds on Niger's shore | B |
| She whom he loves far from the chearful throng | E |
| Stands sad and gazes from her lowly door | B |
| With dim grown eye silent and woe begone | D |
| And weeps for him who will return no more | B |
Robert Southey
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