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SRijavec - Vagabonds
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Vagabonds, Langston Hughes
We are the desperate
Who do not care.
The hungry
Who have nowhere
To eat.
No places to sleep.
The tearless
Who cannot
Weep.
The poem is full of sadness expressed at most by the words desperate, hungry, nowhere, weep.
You can see rhymes in the words care/nowhere and eat/sleep/weep that includes all the verbs of the poem (to care, to eat, to sleep, and to weep) excepted to have.
There is an ascending climax in the verbs in the intensity of the pain that culminates in the verb to weep.