50-50 By Langston Hughes
"50-50," by Langston Hughes is about a woman being alone in the world and complaining that she is, and someone telling her that she needs to break the wall that she has built over her emotions and she won't be alone anymore. He tells her that she won't be alone if she gives him what he wants too. The poem uses a lot of rhyming words but it doesn't have a regular rhyme scheme. This poem uses repetition, "Ain't got nobody to" is repeated. This poem wasn't my favorite but I could somewhat understand it, Langston Hughes is a good author though. "50-50" was a easy read and easy to understand but it wasn't my favorite poem.
I’m all alone in this world, she said,
Ain’t got nobody to share my bed,
Ain’t got nobody to hold my hand—
The truth of the matter’s
I ain’t got no man.
Big Boy opened his mouth and said,
Trouble with you is
You ain’t got no head!
If you had a head and used your mind
You could have me with you
All the time.
"50-50," by Langston Hughes is about a woman being alone in the world and complaining that she is, and someone telling her that she needs to break the wall that she has built over her emotions and she won't be alone anymore. He tells her that she won't be alone if she gives him what he wants too. The poem uses a lot of rhyming words but it doesn't have a regular rhyme scheme. This poem uses repetition, "Ain't got nobody to" is repeated. This poem wasn't my favorite but I could somewhat understand it, Langston Hughes is a good author though. "50-50" was a easy read and easy to understand but it wasn't my favorite poem.
I’m all alone in this world, she said,
Ain’t got nobody to share my bed,
Ain’t got nobody to hold my hand—
The truth of the matter’s
I ain’t got no man.
Big Boy opened his mouth and said,
Trouble with you is
You ain’t got no head!
If you had a head and used your mind
You could have me with you
All the time.
She answered, Babe, what must I do?
He said, Share your bed—
And your money, too.