Harlem Wine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG| This is not water running here | A |
| These thick rebellious streams | B |
| That hurtle flesh and bone past fear | C |
| Down alleyways of dreams | B |
| - | |
| This is a wine that must flow on | D |
| Not caring how or where | E |
| So it has ways to flow upon | D |
| Where song is in the air | E |
| - | |
| So it can woo an artful flute | F |
| With loose elastic lips | G |
| Its measurements of joy compute | F |
| With blithe ecstatic hips | G |
Countee Cullen
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