Night Funeral In Harlem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD EEFE AB GH IJKJ AB LM NEHE AB OPQPHPKPROSKTHKQHU AB| Night funeral | A |
| In Harlem | B |
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| Where did they get | C |
| Them two fine cars | D |
| - | |
| Insurance man he did not pay | E |
| His insurance lapsed the other day | E |
| Yet they got a satin box | F |
| for his head to lay | E |
| - | |
| Night funeral | A |
| In Harlem | B |
| - | |
| Who was it sent | G |
| That wreath of flowers | H |
| - | |
| Them flowers came | I |
| from that poor boy's friends | J |
| They'll want flowers too | K |
| When they meet their ends | J |
| - | |
| Night funeral | A |
| in Harlem | B |
| - | |
| Who preached that | L |
| Black boy to his grave | M |
| - | |
| Old preacher man | N |
| Preached that boy away | E |
| Charged Five Dollars | H |
| His girl friend had to pay | E |
| - | |
| Night funeral | A |
| In Harlem | B |
| - | |
| When it was all over | O |
| And the lid shut on his head | P |
| and the organ had done played | Q |
| and the last prayers been said | P |
| and six pallbearers | H |
| Carried him out for dead | P |
| And off down Lenox Avenue | K |
| That long black hearse done sped | P |
| The street light | R |
| At his corner | O |
| Shined just like a tear | S |
| That boy that they was mournin' | K |
| Was so dear so dear | T |
| To them folks that brought the flowers | H |
| To that girl who paid the preacher man | K |
| It was all their tears that made | Q |
| That poor boy's | H |
| Funeral grand | U |
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| Night funeral | A |
| In Harlem | B |
Langston Hughes
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