Old Black Joe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC B DEB B FFB B| Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay | A |
| Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away | A |
| Gone from the earth to a better land I know | B |
| I hear their gentle voices calling 'Old Black Joe ' | C |
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| Chorus I'm coming I'm coming for my head is bending low | B |
| I hear those gentle voices calling 'Old Black Joe ' | - |
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| Solo Why do I weep when my heart should feel no pain | D |
| Why do I sigh that my friends come not again | E |
| Grieving for forms Now departed long a go | B |
| I hear their gentle voices calling 'Old Black Joe ' | - |
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| Chorus I'm coming I'm coming for my head is bending low | B |
| I hear those gentle voices calling 'Old Black Joe ' | - |
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| Solo Where are the hearts once so happy and so free | F |
| The children so dear that I held upon my knee | F |
| Gone to the shore where my soul has longed to go | B |
| I hear their gentle voices calling 'Old Black Joe ' | - |
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| Chorus I'm coming I'm coming for my head is bending low | B |
| I hear those gentle voices calling 'Old Black Joe ' | - |
Stephen C. Foster
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