Choices Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCADEA FGCBHIC JKJLDMN OPDONJQRS| If i can't do | A |
| what i want to do | A |
| then my job is to not | B |
| do what i don't want | C |
| to do | A |
| It's not the same thing | D |
| but it's the best i can | E |
| do | A |
| - | |
| If i can't have | F |
| what i want then | G |
| my job is to want | C |
| what i've got | B |
| and be satisfied | H |
| that at least there | I |
| is something more to want | C |
| - | |
| Since i can't go | J |
| where i need | K |
| to go then i must go | J |
| where the signs point | L |
| though always understanding | D |
| parallel movement | M |
| isn't lateral | N |
| - | |
| When i can't express | O |
| what i really feel | P |
| i practice feeling | D |
| what i can express | O |
| and none of it is equal | N |
| I know | J |
| but that's why mankind | Q |
| alone among the animals | R |
| learns to cry | S |
Nikki Giovanni
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Bruh Man: This would be cool if the sentences read like they were articulated by a human being.
Khia reed: Keep pushing through whatever I guess
Shania stephens : Keep going no matter how things go even if it’s not what you want you do you will accomplish anything.
Eduardo Hernandez: i have no answer
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emari ellis: hi nikki i think you read these please write back blm
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