Always There Are The Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BC DE FG CH IJ KL MN CNONOPQ RST QA UA| and always there are the children | A |
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| there will be children in the heat of day | B |
| there will be children in the cold of winter | C |
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| children like a quilted blanket | D |
| are welcomed in our old age | E |
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| children like a block of ice to a desert sheik | F |
| are signs of status in our youth | G |
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| we feed the children with our culture | C |
| that they might understand our travail | H |
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| we nourish the children on our gods | I |
| that they may understand respect | J |
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| we urge the children on the tracks | K |
| that our race will not fall short | L |
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| but our children are not ours | M |
| nor we theirs they are future we are past | N |
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| how do we welcome the future | C |
| not with the colonialism of the past | N |
| for that is our problem | O |
| not with the racism of the past | N |
| for that is their problem | O |
| not with the fears of our own status | P |
| for history is lived not dictated | Q |
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| we welcome the young of all groups | R |
| as our own with the solid nourishment | S |
| of food and warmth | T |
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| we prepare the way with the solid | Q |
| nourishment of self actualization | A |
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| we implore all the young to prepare for the young | U |
| because always there will be children | A |
Nikki Giovanni
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