The Slave Dealer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDEDFD GHGHGH IJIKIK KLJLML NHNHO BPBPBP QLQLQL

From ocean's wave a Wanderer cameA
With visage tanned and dunB
His Mother when he told his nameA
Scarce knew her long lost sonB
So altered was his face and frameA
By the ill course he had runB
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There was hot fever in his bloodC
And dark thoughts in his brainD
And oh to turn his heart to goodE
That Mother strove in vainD
For fierce and fearful was his moodF
Racked by remorse and painD
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And if at times a gleam more mildG
Would o'er his features strayH
When knelt the Widow near her ChildG
And he tried with her to prayH
It lasted not for visions wildG
Still scared good thoughts awayH
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There's blood upon my hands he saidI
Which water cannot washJ
It was not shed where warriors bledI
It dropped from the gory lashK
As I whirled it o'er and o'er my headI
And with each stroke left a gashK
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With every stroke I left a gashK
While Negro blood sprang highL
And now all ocean cannot washJ
My soul from murder's dyeL
Nor e'en thy prayer dear Mother quashM
That Woman's wild death cryL
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Her cry is ever in my earN
And it will not let me prayH
Her look I see her voice I hearN
As when in death she layH
And said 'With me thou must appearO
On God's great Judgment day '-
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Now Christ from frenzy keep my sonB
The woeful Widow criedP
Such murder foul thou ne'er hast doneB
Some fiend thy soul beliedP
Nay Mother the Avenging OneB
Was witness when she diedP
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The writhing wretch with furious heelQ
I crushed no mortal nighL
But that same hour her dread appealQ
Was registered on highL
And now with God I have to dealQ
And dare not meet His eyeL

Thomas Pringle



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