The Cakewalk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCBDBBBBDBBB| In smoky lamplight of a Smyrna Caf | A |
| He saw them seven solemn negroes dancing | B |
| With faces rapt and out thrust bellies prancing | B |
| In a slow solemn ceremonial cakewalk | B |
| Dancing and prancing to the sombre tom tom | C |
| Thumped by a crookbacked grizzled negro squatting | B |
| And as he watched within the steamy twilight | D |
| Of swampy forest in rank greenness rotting | B |
| That sombre tom tom at his heartstrings strumming | B |
| Set all his sinews twitching and a singing | B |
| Of cold fire through his blood and he was dancing | B |
| Among his fellows in the dank green twilight | D |
| With naked oiled bronze gleaming bodies swinging | B |
| In a rapt holy everlasting cakewalk | B |
| For evermore in slow procession prancing | B |
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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