Incident Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEF AEGE| Once riding in old Baltimore | A |
| Heart filled head filled with glee | B |
| I saw a Baltimorean | C |
| Keep looking straight at me | B |
| - | |
| Now I was eight and very small | D |
| And he was no whit bigger | E |
| And so I smiled but he poked out | F |
| His tongue and called me 'Nigger ' | - |
| - | |
| I saw the whole of Baltimore | A |
| From May until December | E |
| Of all the things that happened there | G |
| That's all that I remember | E |
Countee Cullen
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