Theme For English B Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DEFEGEH IJ KLCJCMNOPQRB BKIBCSKCCCKBK K

The instructor saidA
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Go home and writeB
a page tonightB
And let that page come out of youC
Then it will be trueC
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I wonder if it's that simpleD
I am twenty two colored born in Winston SalemE
I went to school there then Durham then hereF
to this college on the hill above HarlemE
I am the only colored student in my classG
The steps from the hill lead down into HarlemE
through a park then I cross St NicholasH
Eighth Avenue Seventh and I come to the Y-
the Harlem Branch Y where I take the elevatorI
up to my room sit down and write this pageJ
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It's not easy to know what is true for you or meK
at twenty two my age But I guess I'm whatL
I feel and see and hear Harlem I hear youC
hear you hear me we two you me talk on this pageJ
I hear New York too Me whoC
Well I like to eat sleep drink and be in loveM
I like to work read learn and understand lifeN
I like a pipe for a Christmas presentO
or records Bessie bop or BachP
I guess being colored doesn't make me not likeQ
the same things other folks like who are other racesR
So will my page be colored that I writeB
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Being me it will not be whiteB
But it will beK
a part of you instructorI
You are whiteB
yet a part of me as I am a part of youC
That's AmericanS
Sometimes perhaps you don't want to be a part of meK
Nor do I often want to be a part of youC
But we are that's trueC
As I learn from youC
I guess you learn from meK
although you're older and whiteB
and somewhat more freeK
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This is my page for English BK

Langston Hughes



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