Cultural Exchange Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFGGHHHH ABIJHKH GLMGN OHPBQP RRSM TUABAB BMBLAAAAAAGAALGA VPWGIn 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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You know right at Christmas | R |
They asked me if my blackness | R |
Would it rub off | S |
I said Ask your mama | M |
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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 |
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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 |
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i Culture they say is a two way street i | V |
Hand me my mint julep mammny | P |
Hurry up | W |
Make haste | G |
Langston Hughes
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