In his traditional poem "The Melting Pot", Dudley Randall deals with the problems and prejudices the Blacks are confronted with in America and shows that white people can more easily adapt to American civilisation than Afro-Americans can.

The poem is a ballad stanza, has an irregular rhyme scheme and the fife stanzas, which are in iambic tetra- and trimeter, are equally long.

The first stanza, in which Randall describes what the American society is like for him, has the regular rhyme scheme abab:

"There is a magic melting pot

where any girl or man

can step in Czech or Greek or Scot,

step out American."

The "magic melting pot" represents America, where all Europeans are welcome and can become part of the community. They are accepted and tolerated-regardless of their origin. The first lines already point out, that the people who want to get into the melting pot...