Old dog queenie

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



Old Dog Queenie
Was such a meanie,
She spent her life
Barking at the scenery.

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It's a poem from collected works of Langston Hughes children's poems, real short, 4 lines, but in the copy can't read (see) the final word. It goes, Old Dog Queenie Was such a meanie, She spent her life Barking at the (copy is slanted so runs off the page, guessing it should rhyme with -- ife.)

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Submitted by beard.debby on October 19, 2022

Modified by acronimous on July 12, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 78
Words 17
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4

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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