These Yet To Be United States Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHEH EIJI CKJL MNON| Tremors of your network | A |
| cause kings to disappear | B |
| Your open mouth in anger | C |
| makes nations bow in fear | B |
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| Your bombs can change the seasons | D |
| obliterate the spring | E |
| What more do you long for | F |
| Why are you suffering | E |
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| You control the human lives | G |
| in Rome and Timbuktu | H |
| Lonely nomads wandering | E |
| owe Telstar to you | H |
| - | |
| Seas shift at your bidding | E |
| your mushrooms fill the sky | I |
| Why are you unhappy | J |
| Why do your children cry | I |
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| They kneel alone in terror | C |
| with dread in every glance | K |
| Their nights 'rights' Schrift nicht lesbar are threatened daily | J |
| by a grim inheritance | L |
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| You dwell in whitened castles | M |
| with deep and poisoned moats | N |
| and cannot hear the curses | O |
| which fill your children's throats | N |
Maya Angelou
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