Free Verse · Strength
I, Too
by Langston Hughes · 1926
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Quick facts
- Poem
- I, Too
- Poet
- Langston Hughes
- Published
- 1926
- Length
- 18 lines
- Form
- Free Verse
- Themes
- Strength, Hope, Power & Hubris
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 18 lines · 5 stanzas of 1–7 lines
- End rhyme
- No regular perfect end rhyme. The poem may still be using slant rhyme, assonance, or internal echo, which this check does not score.
- Refrains
- “When company comes,”“When company comes.”Repeated lines act as the poem's hinge or drumbeat.
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Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
Full-text display is based on the cited edition and a United States term-expiry review.
- Author record
- Langston Hughes1902–1967
- Source record
- WikisourceI, Too by langston-hughes, Wikisource transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- The Weary Blues, 1926
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 0c81d34dc13044b2…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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