As I Grew Older Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFDDBGHAIADDHAJ JHBKLAEMEIt was a long time ago | A |
I have almost forgotten my dream | B |
But it was there then | C |
In front of me | D |
Bright like a sun | E |
My dream | B |
And then the wall rose | F |
Rose slowly | D |
Slowly | D |
Between me and my dream | B |
Rose until it touched the sky | G |
The wall | H |
Shadow | A |
I am black | I |
I lie down in the shadow | A |
No longer the light of my dream before me | D |
Above me | D |
Only the thick wall | H |
Only the shadow | A |
My hands | J |
My dark hands | J |
Break through the wall | H |
Find my dream | B |
Help me to shatter this darkness | K |
To smash this night | L |
To break this shadow | A |
Into a thousand lights of sun | E |
Into a thousand whirling dreams | M |
Of sun | E |
Langston Hughes
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