Theme For English B Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DEFEGEH IJ KLCJCMNOPQRB BKIBCSKCCCKBK KThe instructor said | A |
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Go home and write | B |
a page tonight | B |
And let that page come out of you | C |
Then it will be true | C |
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I wonder if it's that simple | D |
I am twenty two colored born in Winston Salem | E |
I went to school there then Durham then here | F |
to this college on the hill above Harlem | E |
I am the only colored student in my class | G |
The steps from the hill lead down into Harlem | E |
through a park then I cross St Nicholas | H |
Eighth Avenue Seventh and I come to the Y | - |
the Harlem Branch Y where I take the elevator | I |
up to my room sit down and write this page | J |
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It's not easy to know what is true for you or me | K |
at twenty two my age But I guess I'm what | L |
I feel and see and hear Harlem I hear you | C |
hear you hear me we two you me talk on this page | J |
I hear New York too Me who | C |
Well I like to eat sleep drink and be in love | M |
I like to work read learn and understand life | N |
I like a pipe for a Christmas present | O |
or records Bessie bop or Bach | P |
I guess being colored doesn't make me not like | Q |
the same things other folks like who are other races | R |
So will my page be colored that I write | B |
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Being me it will not be white | B |
But it will be | K |
a part of you instructor | I |
You are white | B |
yet a part of me as I am a part of you | C |
That's American | S |
Sometimes perhaps you don't want to be a part of me | K |
Nor do I often want to be a part of you | C |
But we are that's true | C |
As I learn from you | C |
I guess you learn from me | K |
although you're older and white | B |
and somewhat more free | K |
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This is my page for English B | K |
Langston Hughes
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