Back to category: English Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. Initiation Stories Claude McKay’s “The Harlem Dancer” is an English, or Shakespearean sonnet because of its rhyme scheme: a Applauding youths laughed with young prostitutes b And watched her perfect, half-clothed body sway; a Her voice was like the sound of blended flutes b Blown by black players upon a picnic day. c She sang and danced on gracefully and calm, d The light gauze hanging loose about her form; c To me she seemed a proudly-swaying palm d Grown lovelier for passing through a storm. e Upon her swarthy neck black shiny curls f Luxuriant fell; and tossing coins in praise, e The wine-flushed, bold-eyed boys, and even the girls, f ... Posted by: Gabrielle Gooch Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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