Will V-day Be Me-day Too? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDDEFGGHF IJKLMMNL OPEAFFFA QRQSPTUS VVVKWXXK PPYZA2A2EZ IJB2C2D2D2E2C2 F2F2FG2H2H2I2G2 TPB2FHJ2HFV B2VOver There | A |
World War II | B |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Sincerely | B2 |
GI Joe | V |
Langston Hughes
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