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Common Measure

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Poems in the "common measure," defined approximately as accented-syllabic verse in rhyming quatrains .

Contents of this tag:

  1. Claude McKay, "The Barrier" (1919)
  2. Jessie Fauset, "Oriflamme" (1920)
  3. Otto Bohanan, "Mammy" (1917)
  4. Claude McKay, "A Memory of June" (1920)
  5. James Weldon Johnson, "To America" (1917)
  6. Claude McKay, "To One Coming North" (1922)
  7. Otto Bohanan, "God Gave Us Song" (1918)
  8. Otto Bohanan, "Go, Give the World" (1919)
  9. J. Alpheus Butler, "The Dark Flower" (1928)
  10. Matthew Bennett, "They" (1924)
  11. A.R. Abbott, "'Neath the Crown and Maple Leaf" (1901)
  12. James A. Atkins, "The First Wireless Message" (1925)
  13. Joseph S. Cotter, "Whatever Road" (1920)
  14. Claude McKay, "Morning Joy" (1921)
  15. Claude McKay, "The Easter Flower" (1921)
  16. Lida Keck-Wiggins, "Bouquet Charlie" (1906)
  17. William Stanley Braithwaite, "June" (1901)
  18. William H. Tibbs, "Awake! Arise! Onward!" (1923)