Harlem

What is the author's style in Harlem by Langston Hughes?

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Hughes uses an irregular meter in the lines of "Harlem", that is, he stresses different syllables in each line and varies the length of each line. Several lines rhyme, but there is not a consistent pattern of rhyme.

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