Question

Read the following poem “Harlem: A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes and answer the question that follows.

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

What is this poem’s rhyme scheme?
A.
ABCDEFGHIJJ
B.
ABCCDDEEFFG
C.
ABCDCEFEGHH
D.
ABCDCDEFEFF

Answer 1

C. ABCDCEFEGHH

Is the rhyme scheme of the poem.

What happens to a dream deferred? - A

Does it dry up - B
like a raisin in the sun? - C
Or fester like a sore— D
And then run? - C
Does it stink like rotten meat? - E
Or crust and sugar over— F
like a syrupy sweet? - E

Maybe it just sags - G
like a heavy load. - H

Or does it explode? - H