Will V-day Be Me-day Too? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AB CDDEFGGHF IJKLMMNL OPEAFFFA QRQSPTUS VVVKWXXK PPYZA2A2EZ IJB2C2D2D2E2C2 F2F2FG2H2H2I2G2 TPB2FHJ2HFV B2V

Over ThereA
World War IIB
-
Dear Fellow AmericansC
I write this letterD
Hoping times will be betterD
When this warE
Is throughF
I'm a Tan skinned YankG
Driving a tankG
I ask WILL V DAYH
BE ME DAY TOOF
-
I wear a U S uniformI
I've done the enemy much harmJ
I've driven backK
The Germans and the JapsL
From Burma to the RhineM
On every battle lineM
I've dropped defeatN
Into the Fascists' lapsL
-
I am a Negro AmericanO
Out to defend my landP
Army Navy Air CorpsE
I am thereA
I take munitions throughF
I fight or stevedore tooF
I face death the same as you doF
EverywhereA
-
I've seen my buddy lyingQ
Where he fellR
I've watched him dyingQ
I promised him that I would tryS
To make our land a landP
Where his son could be a manT
And there'd be no Jim Crow birdsU
Left in our skyS
-
So this is what I want to knowV
When we see Victory's glowV
Will you still let old Jim CrowV
Hold me backK
When all those foreign folks who've waitedW
Italians Chinese Danes are liberatedX
Will I still be ill fatedX
Because I'm blackK
-
Here in my own my native landP
Will the Jim Crow laws still standP
Will Dixie lynch me stillY
When I returnZ
Or will you comrades in armsA2
From the factories and the farmsA2
Have learned what this warE
Was fought for us to learnZ
-
When I take off my uniformI
Will I be safe from harmJ
Or will you do meB2
As the Germans did the JewsC2
When I've helped this world to saveD2
Shall I still be color's slaveD2
Or will Victory changeE2
Your antiquated viewsC2
-
You can't say I didn't fightF2
To smash the Fascists' mightF2
You can't say I wasn't with youF
in each battleG2
As a soldier and a friendH2
When this war comes to an endH2
Will you herd me in a Jim Crow carI2
Like cattleG2
-
Or will you stand up like a manT
At home and take your standP
For DemocracyB2
That's all I ask of youF
When we lay the guns awayH
To celebrateJ2
Our Victory DayH
WILL V DAY BE ME DAY TOOF
That's what I want to knowV
-
SincerelyB2
GI JoeV

Langston Hughes



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