Negress In Notre Dame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FBFBADAD BCBCGDGD HDHDBDBD DDDD| When 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 William Service
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