Hollie
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I set up my cash box and my bones and cards
on Broadway, most days, offering what I see
of what’s to come. For a donation, words
fall from my mouth, surprising even me.
Uncle Epiphany doesn’t forecast death
or illness worse than gout or a broken bone.
The sailors stop. They listen with caught breath
as I tell them some girl’s heart is still theirs alone.
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(… or not. Young love is such a butterfly.)
Girls come, arms linked, giggling behind their fans.
The sad come. Uncle Epiphany does not lie.
I close shop, and come back up here to my land.
It’s a new world up here, of beggar millionaires:
neighbors who know how we all scrimped and saved
to own this stony swamp with its fetid air,
to claim the dream for dreamers yet enslaved.
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I’m Epiphany Davis. I am a conjure-man.
I see glimpses. Glass towers … A horseless vehicle …
An American President who is half African …
Until you pay me, that’s all I’m going to tell.
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Ballad
A ballad is a song that uses steady rhythm, strong rhymes, and repetition to tell a story.
This poem has good repetition of rhymes and theme.
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Rhythm
Rhythm is the alternation of stressed and unstressed sounds that make the voice rise and fall.
The rhymes are at the end of every other line creating a stressed and unstressed rhythm.
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Meter
Meter is a strict rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line.
Every line has a different meter.
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Feet
A feet is a metrical unit that makes up a metrical poem
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Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia is the use of words that sound like what they mean.
Photo by Olly Farrell
