Notes For A Speech Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHI J KLMNOPQRS T OTUGVEWXYZA2AWB2CC2D 2E2F2G2| African blues | A |
| does not know me Their steps in sands | B |
| of their own | C |
| land A country | D |
| in black white newspapers | E |
| blown down pavements | F |
| of the world Does | G |
| not feel | H |
| what I am | I |
| - | |
| Strength | J |
| - | |
| in the dream an oblique | K |
| suckling of nerve the wind | L |
| throws up sand eyes | M |
| are something locked in | N |
| hate of hate of hate to | O |
| walk abroad they conduct | P |
| their deaths apart | Q |
| from my own Those | R |
| heads I call | S |
| my 'people ' | - |
| - | |
| And who are they People To concern | T |
| - | |
| myself ugly man Who | O |
| you to concern | T |
| the white flat stomachs | U |
| of maidens inside houses | G |
| dying Black Peeled moon | V |
| light on my fingers | E |
| move under | W |
| her clothes Where | X |
| is her husband Black | Y |
| words throw up sand | Z |
| to eyes fingers of | A2 |
| their private dead Whose | A |
| soul eyes in sand My color | W |
| is not theirs Lighter white man | B2 |
| talk They shy away My own | C |
| dead souls my so called | C2 |
| people Africa | D2 |
| is a foreign place You are | E2 |
| as any other sad man here | F2 |
| american | G2 |
Amiri Baraka
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