Cultural Exchange Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFGGHHHH ABIJHKH GLMGN OHPBQP RRSM TUABAB BMBLAAAAAAGAALGA GPVG| In the Quarter of the Negroes | A |
| Where the doors are doors of paper | B |
| Dust of dingy atoms | C |
| Blows a scratchy sound | D |
| Amorphous jack o' Lanterns caper | B |
| And the wind won't wait for midnight | E |
| For fun to blow doors down | F |
| By the river and the railroad | G |
| With fluid far off goind | G |
| Boundaries bind unbinding | H |
| A whirl of whisteles blowing | H |
| No trains or steamboats going | H |
| Yet Leontyne's unpacking | H |
| - | |
| In the Quarter of the Negroes | A |
| Where the doorknob lets in Lieder | B |
| More than German ever bore | I |
| Her yesterday past grandpa | J |
| Not of her own doing | H |
| In a pot of collard greens | K |
| Is gently stewing | H |
| - | |
| Pushcarts fold and unfold | G |
| In a supermarket sea | L |
| And we better find out mama | M |
| Where is the colored laundromat | G |
| Since we move dup to Mount Vernon | N |
| - | |
| In the pot begind the paper doors | O |
| on the old iron stove what's cooking | H |
| What's smelling Leontyne | P |
| Lieder lovely Lieder | B |
| And a leaf of collard green | Q |
| Lovely Lieder Leontyne | P |
| - | |
| You know right at Christmas | R |
| They asked me if my blackness | R |
| Would it rub off | S |
| I said Ask your mama | M |
| - | |
| Dreams and nightmares | T |
| Nightmares dreams oh | U |
| Dreaming that the Negroes | A |
| Of the South have taken over | B |
| Voted all the Dixiecrats | A |
| Right out of power | B |
| - | |
| Comes the COLORED HOUR | B |
| Martin Luther King is Governor of Georgia | M |
| Dr Rufus Clement his Chief Adviser | B |
| A Philip Randolph the High Grand Worthy | L |
| In white pillared mansions | A |
| Sitting on their wide verandas | A |
| Wealthy Negroes have white servants | A |
| White sharecroppers work the black plantations | A |
| And colored children have white mammies | A |
| Mammy Faubus | A |
| Mammy Eastland | G |
| Mammy Wallace | A |
| Dear dear darling old white mammies | A |
| Sometimes even buried with our family | L |
| Dear old | G |
| Mammy Faubus | A |
| - | |
| Culture they say is a two way street | G |
| Hand me my mint julep mammny | P |
| Hurry up | V |
| Make haste | G |
Langston Hughes
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