Dream Boogie

Langston Hughes 1902 (Joplin) – 1967 (New York City)



Good morning, daddy!
Ain't you heard
The boogie-woogie rumble
Of a dream deferred?

Listen closely:
You'll hear their feet
Beating out and beating out a —

You think
It's a happy beat?

Listen to it closely:
Ain't you heard
something underneath
like a —

What did I say?

Sure,
I'm happy!
Take it away!

Hey, pop!
Re-bop!
Mop!

Y-e-a-h!
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Submitted by Thao9393 on May 19, 2018

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme aBxb acd xc aBxd e xae fff
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 313
Words 59
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 2, 4, 1, 3, 3

Langston Hughes

James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue" which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue". more…

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