To Certain Critics Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEGHIHI| Then call me traitor if you must | A |
| Shout reason and default | B |
| Say I betray a sacred trust | A |
| Aching beyond this vault | B |
| I'll bear your censure as your praise | C |
| For never shall the clan | D |
| Confine my singing to its ways | C |
| Beyond the ways of man | D |
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| No racial option narrows grief | E |
| Pain is not patriot | F |
| And sorrow plaits her dismal leaf | E |
| For all as lief as not | G |
| With blind sheep groping every hill | H |
| Searching an oriflamme | I |
| How shall the shpherd heart then thrill | H |
| To only the darker lamb | I |
Countee Cullen
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