Cultural Exchange Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEFGGHHHH ABIJHKH GLMGN OHPBQP RRSM TUABAB BMBLAAAAAAGAALGA VPWG

In the Quarter of the NegroesA
Where the doors are doors of paperB
Dust of dingy atomsC
Blows a scratchy soundD
Amorphous jack o' Lanterns caperB
And the wind won't wait for midnightE
For fun to blow doors downF
By the river and the railroadG
With fluid far off goindG
Boundaries bind unbindingH
A whirl of whisteles blowingH
No trains or steamboats goingH
Yet Leontyne's unpackingH
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In the Quarter of the NegroesA
Where the doorknob lets in LiederB
More than German ever boreI
Her yesterday past grandpaJ
Not of her own doingH
In a pot of collard greensK
Is gently stewingH
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Pushcarts fold and unfoldG
In a supermarket seaL
And we better find out mamaM
Where is the colored laundromatG
Since we move dup to Mount VernonN
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In the pot begind the paper doorsO
on the old iron stove what's cookingH
What's smelling LeontyneP
Lieder lovely LiederB
And a leaf of collard greenQ
Lovely Lieder LeontyneP
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You know right at ChristmasR
They asked me if my blacknessR
Would it rub offS
I said Ask your mamaM
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Dreams and nightmaresT
Nightmares dreams ohU
Dreaming that the NegroesA
Of the South have taken overB
Voted all the DixiecratsA
Right out of powerB
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Comes the COLORED HOURB
Martin Luther King is Governor of GeorgiaM
Dr Rufus Clement his Chief AdviserB
A Philip Randolph the High Grand WorthyL
In white pillared mansionsA
Sitting on their wide verandasA
Wealthy Negroes have white servantsA
White sharecroppers work the black plantationsA
And colored children have white mammiesA
Mammy FaubusA
Mammy EastlandG
Mammy WallaceA
Dear dear darling old white mammiesA
Sometimes even buried with our familyL
Dear oldG
Mammy FaubusA
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i Culture they say is a two way street iV
Hand me my mint julep mammnyP
Hurry upW
Make hasteG

Langston Hughes



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