Let America Be America Again Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA A CDED A AFAG AA HI JIKLML NBKOPO QRSRETUT EVWVXYZA2B2AC2A A APD2PCE2F2E2PP G2H2AAI2BBG2 J2BK2G2I2 L2BAM2A N2O2EP2BQ2G2| be | A |
| Let it be the pioneer on the plain | B |
| Seeking a home where he himself is free | A |
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| America never was America to me | A |
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| Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed | C |
| Let it be that great strong land of love | D |
| Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme | E |
| That any man be crushed by one above | D |
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| It never was America to me | A |
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| O let my land be a land where Liberty | A |
| Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath | F |
| But opportunity is real and life is free | A |
| Equality is in the air we breathe | G |
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| There's never been equality for me | A |
| Nor freedom in this homeland of the free | A |
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| Say who are you that mumbles in the dark | H |
| And who are you that draws your veil across the stars | I |
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| I am the poor white fooled and pushed apart | J |
| I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars | I |
| I am the red man driven from the land | K |
| I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek | L |
| And finding only the same old stupid plan | M |
| Of dog eat dog of mighty crush the weak | L |
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| I am the young man full of strength and hope | N |
| Tangled in that ancient endless chain | B |
| Of profit power gain of grab the land | K |
| Of grab the gold Of grab the ways of satisfying need | O |
| Of work the men Of take the pay | P |
| Of owning everything for one's own greed | O |
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| I am the farmer bondsman to the soil | Q |
| I am the worker sold to the machine | R |
| I am the Negro servant to you all | S |
| I am the people humble hungry mean | R |
| Hungry yet today despite the dream | E |
| Beaten yet today O Pioneers | T |
| I am the man who never got ahead | U |
| The poorest worker bartered through the years | T |
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| Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream | E |
| In the Old World while still a serf of kings | V |
| Who dreamt a dream so strong so brave so true | W |
| That even yet its mighty daring sings | V |
| In every brick and stone in every furrow turned | X |
| That's made America the land it has become | Y |
| O I'm the man who sailed those early seas | Z |
| In search of what I meant to be my home | A2 |
| For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore | B2 |
| And Poland's plain and England's grassy lea | A |
| And torn from Black Africa's strand I came | C2 |
| To build a homeland of the free | A |
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| The free | A |
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| Who said the free Not me | A |
| Surely not me The millions on relief today | P |
| The millions shot down when we strike | D2 |
| The millions who have nothing for our pay | P |
| For all the dreams we've dreamed | C |
| And all the songs we've sung | E2 |
| And all the hopes we've held | F2 |
| And all the flags we've hung | E2 |
| The millions who have nothing for our pay | P |
| Except the dream that's almost dead today | P |
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| O let America be America again | G2 |
| The land that never has been yet | H2 |
| And yet must be the land where every man is free | A |
| The land that's mine the poor man's Indian's Negro's ME | A |
| Who made America | I2 |
| Whose sweat and blood whose faith and pain | B |
| Whose hand at the foundry whose plow in the rain | B |
| Must bring back our mighty dream again | G2 |
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| Sure call me any ugly name you choose | J2 |
| The steel of freedom does not stain | B |
| From those who live like leeches on the people's lives | K2 |
| We must take back our land again | G2 |
| America | I2 |
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| O yes | L2 |
| I say it plain | B |
| America never was America to me | A |
| And yet I swear this oath | M2 |
| America will be | A |
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| Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death | N2 |
| The rape and rot of graft and stealth and lies | O2 |
| We the people must redeem | E |
| The land the mines the plants the rivers | P2 |
| The mountains and the endless plain | B |
| All all the stretch of these great green states | Q2 |
| And make America again | G2 |
Langston Hughes
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