"Poetry for the People": Reading Garveyism through Poetry

blood / God

This poem has an "AABB..." rhyme scheme, meaning that every successive pair of lines rhyme with each other; however, the poem begins with a slant rhyme, since "blood" and "God" do not rhyme perfectly. What effect might the rhyme scheme have on you, the reader? Does beginning on a slant rhyme amplify or soften that effect?

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