To The Diaspora Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A AABACDE FGHICHJ KHLM GNOPF| you did not know you were Afrika | A |
| - | |
| When you set out for Afrika | A |
| you did not know you were going | A |
| Because | B |
| you did not know you were Afrika | A |
| You did not know the Black continent | C |
| that had to be reached | D |
| was you | E |
| - | |
| I could not have told you then that some sun | F |
| would come | G |
| somewhere over the road | H |
| would come evoking the diamonds | I |
| of you the Black continent | C |
| somewhere over the road | H |
| You would not have believed my mouth | J |
| - | |
| When I told you meeting you somewhere close | K |
| to the heat and youth of the road | H |
| liking my loyalty liking belief | L |
| you smiled and you thanked me but very little believed me | M |
| - | |
| Here is some sun Some | G |
| Now off into the places rough to reach | N |
| Though dry though drowsy all unwillingly a wobble | O |
| into the dissonant and dangerous crescendo | P |
| Your work that was done to be done to be done to be done | F |
Gwendolyn Brooks
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