Harlem Shadows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDECC FGFGCC| I hear the halting footsteps of a lass | A |
| In Negro Harlem when the night lets fall | B |
| Its veil I see the shapes of girls who pass | A |
| To bend and barter at desire's call | B |
| Ah little dark girls who in slippered feet | C |
| Go prowling through the night from street to street | C |
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| Through the long night until the silver break | D |
| Of day the little gray feet know no rest | E |
| Through the lone night until the last snow flake | D |
| Has dropped from heaven upon the earth's white breast | E |
| The dusky half clad girls of tired feet | C |
| Are trudging thinly shod from street to street | C |
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| Ah stern harsh world that in the wretched way | F |
| Of poverty dishonor and disgrace | G |
| Has pushed the timid little feet of clay | F |
| The sacred brown feet of my fallen race | G |
| Ah heart of me the weary weary feet | C |
| In Harlem wandering from street to street | C |
Claude Mckay
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