Ka'ba Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH BFIJKL MNN OPQR M| 'A closed window looks down | A |
| on a dirty courtyard and Black people | B |
| call across or scream across or walk across | C |
| defying physics in the stream of their will | D |
| - | |
| Our world is full of sound | E |
| Our world is more lovely than anyone's | F |
| tho we suffer and kill each other | G |
| and sometimes fail to walk the air | H |
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| We are beautiful people | B |
| With African imaginations | F |
| full of masks and dances and swelling chants | I |
| with African eyes and noses and arms | J |
| tho we sprawl in gray chains in a place | K |
| full of winters when what we want is sun | L |
| - | |
| We have been captured | M |
| and we labor to make our getaway into | N |
| the ancient image into a new | N |
| - | |
| Correspondence with ourselves | O |
| and our Black family We need magic | P |
| now we need the spells to raise up | Q |
| return destroy and create What will be | R |
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| the sacred word | M |
Amiri Baraka
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