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 There | A |
| World War II | B |
| - | |
| Dear Fellow Americans | C |
| I write this letter | D |
| Hoping times will be better | D |
| When this war | E |
| Is through | F |
| I'm a Tan skinned Yank | G |
| Driving a tank | G |
| I ask WILL V DAY | H |
| BE ME DAY TOO | F |
| - | |
| I wear a U S uniform | I |
| I've done the enemy much harm | J |
| I've driven back | K |
| The Germans and the Japs | L |
| From Burma to the Rhine | M |
| On every battle line | M |
| I've dropped defeat | N |
| Into the Fascists' laps | L |
| - | |
| I am a Negro American | O |
| Out to defend my land | P |
| Army Navy Air Corps | E |
| I am there | A |
| I take munitions through | F |
| I fight or stevedore too | F |
| I face death the same as you do | F |
| Everywhere | A |
| - | |
| I've seen my buddy lying | Q |
| Where he fell | R |
| I've watched him dying | Q |
| I promised him that I would try | S |
| To make our land a land | P |
| Where his son could be a man | T |
| And there'd be no Jim Crow birds | U |
| Left in our sky | S |
| - | |
| So this is what I want to know | V |
| When we see Victory's glow | V |
| Will you still let old Jim Crow | V |
| Hold me back | K |
| When all those foreign folks who've waited | W |
| Italians Chinese Danes are liberated | X |
| Will I still be ill fated | X |
| Because I'm black | K |
| - | |
| Here in my own my native land | P |
| Will the Jim Crow laws still stand | P |
| Will Dixie lynch me still | Y |
| When I return | Z |
| Or will you comrades in arms | A2 |
| From the factories and the farms | A2 |
| Have learned what this war | E |
| Was fought for us to learn | Z |
| - | |
| When I take off my uniform | I |
| Will I be safe from harm | J |
| Or will you do me | B2 |
| As the Germans did the Jews | C2 |
| When I've helped this world to save | D2 |
| Shall I still be color's slave | D2 |
| Or will Victory change | E2 |
| Your antiquated views | C2 |
| - | |
| You can't say I didn't fight | F2 |
| To smash the Fascists' might | F2 |
| You can't say I wasn't with you | F |
| in each battle | G2 |
| As a soldier and a friend | H2 |
| When this war comes to an end | H2 |
| Will you herd me in a Jim Crow car | I2 |
| Like cattle | G2 |
| - | |
| Or will you stand up like a man | T |
| At home and take your stand | P |
| For Democracy | B2 |
| That's all I ask of you | F |
| When we lay the guns away | H |
| To celebrate | J2 |
| Our Victory Day | H |
| WILL V DAY BE ME DAY TOO | F |
| That's what I want to know | V |
| - | |
| Sincerely | B2 |
| GI Joe | V |
Langston Hughes
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