People Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFGHIJK LGMHNFO PQR| To those fixed on white | A |
| White is white | A |
| To those fixed on black | B |
| It is the same | C |
| And red is red | D |
| Yellow yellow | E |
| Surely there are such sights | F |
| In the many colored world | G |
| Or in the mind | H |
| The strange thing is that | I |
| These people never see themselves | J |
| Or you or me | K |
| - | |
| Are they not in their minds | L |
| Are we not in the world | G |
| This is a curious blindness | M |
| For those that are color blind | H |
| What queer beliefs | N |
| That men who believe in sights | F |
| Disbelieve in seers | O |
| - | |
| O people if you but used | P |
| Your other eyes | Q |
| You would see beings | R |
Jean Toomer
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