Primer For Blacks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFG HIJHI JK LMNOPGQCRLRGB ASATTTTTTAU VELGWAXY DCZ QA2A2B2CC2D2QDDDD Q| Blackness | A |
| is a title | B |
| is a preoccupation | C |
| is a commitment Blacks | D |
| are to comprehend | E |
| and in which you are | F |
| to perceive your Glory | G |
| - | |
| The conscious shout | H |
| of all that is white is | I |
| It s Great to be white | J |
| The conscious shout | H |
| of the slack in Black is | I |
| 'It's Great to be white ' | - |
| Thus all that is white | J |
| has white strength and yours | K |
| - | |
| The word Black | L |
| has geographic power | M |
| pulls everybody in | N |
| Blacks here | O |
| Blacks there | P |
| Blacks wherever they may be | G |
| And remember you Blacks what they told you | Q |
| remember your Education | C |
| one Drop one Drop | R |
| maketh a brand new Black | L |
| Oh mighty Drop | R |
| And because they have given us kindly | G |
| so many more of our people | B |
| - | |
| Blackness | A |
| stretches over the land | S |
| Blackness | A |
| the Black of it | T |
| the rust red of it | T |
| the milk and cream of it | T |
| the tan and yellow tan of it | T |
| the deep brown middle brown high brown of it | T |
| the olive and ochre of it | T |
| Blackness | A |
| marches on | U |
| - | |
| The huge the pungent object of our prime out ride | V |
| is to Comprehend | E |
| to salute and to Love the fact that we are Black | L |
| which is our ultimate Reality | G |
| which is the lone ground | W |
| from which our meaningful metamorphosis | A |
| from which our prosperous staccato | X |
| group or individual can rise | Y |
| - | |
| Self shriveled Blacks | D |
| Begin with gaunt and marvelous concession | C |
| YOU are our costume and our fundamental bone | Z |
| - | |
| All of you | Q |
| you COLORED ones | A2 |
| you NEGRO ones | A2 |
| those of you who proudly cry | B2 |
| I m half INDian | C |
| those of you who proudly screech | C2 |
| I VE got the blood of George WASHington in MY veins | D2 |
| ALL of you | Q |
| you proper Blacks | D |
| you half Blacks | D |
| you wish I weren t Blacks | D |
| Niggeroes and Niggerenes | D |
| - | |
| - | |
| You | Q |
Gwendolyn Brooks
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