This poem is free verse, there is repettition it is the name "jim crow" which in this poem means,the poem has no rhyme scheme. The true meaning of this poem is you make blacks move to the back of the bus and do all these other things. Then the African americans is like what next segragated carnivals or something of that nature.
Merry-Go-Round by Langston HughesCOLORED CHILD AT CARNIVALWhere is the Jim Crow sectionOn this merry-go-round,Mister, cause I want to ride?Down South where I come fromWhite and coloredCan't sit side by side.Down South on the trainThere's a Jim Crow car.On the bus we're put in the back--But there ain't no backTo a merry-go-round!Where's the horseFor a kid that's black?