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Sherman Hemsley delivered a brilliant 12 stanza monologue poem as his iconic character George Jefferson on the hit TV sitcom, “THE JEFFERSONS”.
In this monologue poem, George Jefferson is speaking to his son, Lionel, played by Mike Evans, about the progress that had made toward racial equality and the impact that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had on his life.
This monologue poem is 12 quatrain (4 lines) stanzas where the 1st and 3rd lines rhyme with each other while the 2nd and 4th lines (represented by an X) do NOT rhyme at all. So the Rhyme Scheme looks like this: axax, bxbx, cxcx, dxdx, exex, fxfx, gxgx, hxhx, etc….
If I were to perform this monologue poem, I would speak the rhymed line with a bit more vehemence than the unrhymed lines. I vehemently reminisce about the effect that race had on me as a child and how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. changed things. I would really dig into the details of the story to illustrate my point that there have been alot of changes made. I might also place a brief pause after each stanza.
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James Ivan 