Walking Down Park Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKIL MNOPAQNRSTUVTE WXXXXXXAY ZA2B2XC2EA2X D2E2XF2G2XH2 XXB2XI2J2B2XX I2XX| walking down park | A |
| amsterdam | B |
| or columbus do you ever stop | C |
| to think what it looked like | D |
| before it was an avenue | E |
| did you ever stop to think | F |
| what you walked | G |
| before you rode | H |
| subways to the stock | I |
| exchange we can't be on | J |
| the stock exchange | K |
| we are the stock | I |
| exchanged | L |
| - | |
| did you ever maybe wonder | M |
| what grass was like before | N |
| they rolled it | O |
| into a ball and called | P |
| it central park | A |
| where syphilitic dogs | Q |
| and their two legged tubercular | N |
| masters fertilize | R |
| the corners and side walks | S |
| ever want to know what would happen | T |
| if your life could be fertilized | U |
| by a love thought | V |
| from a loved one | T |
| who loves you | E |
| - | |
| ever look south | W |
| on a clear day and not see | X |
| time's squares but see | X |
| tall Birch trees with sycamores | X |
| touching hands | X |
| and see gazelles running playfully | X |
| after the lions | X |
| ever hear the antelope bark | A |
| from the third floor apartment | Y |
| - | |
| ever did you ever sit down | Z |
| and wonder about what freedom's freedom | A2 |
| would bring | B2 |
| it's so easy to be free | X |
| you start by loving yourself | C2 |
| then those who look like you | E |
| all else will come | A2 |
| naturally | X |
| - | |
| ever wonder why | D2 |
| so much asphalt was laid | E2 |
| in so little space | X |
| probably so we would forget | F2 |
| the Iroquois Algonquin | G2 |
| and Mohicans who could caress | X |
| the earth | H2 |
| - | |
| ever think what Harlem would be | X |
| like if our herbs and roots and elephant ears | X |
| grew sending | B2 |
| a cacophony of sound to us | X |
| the parrot parroting black is beautiful black is beautiful | I2 |
| owls sending out whooooo's making love | J2 |
| and me and you just sitting in the sun trying | B2 |
| to find a way to get a banana tree from one of the monkeys | X |
| koala bears in the trees laughing at our listlessness | X |
| - | |
| ever think its possible | I2 |
| for us to be | X |
| happy | X |
Nikki Giovanni
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