Analysis of Who Are You?
Dawn Hancock 1946 (Oakland, California)
Who Are You ?
I see you , I see thru you
It's your language; It's your world
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From the cave you came to take away
knowledge ideas/ideals and make them yours
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At what cost matters not by beating, hanging
psychological imprisonment by means unnecessary
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Now the time has come for the Atonement of
the raping of African nations and past atrocities
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Neither Massa nor Master are you
not of this world not of the next
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Thin enough for light to pass thru But
not thick enough Not to see thru
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Answer; you biggots who still run rampant with a
more prevalent and arrogant mindlessness
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Scheme | a axb xcB xxB xxB axB xaB xcB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 1111111 1110111 010010 101111101 10010010111 010010 11110111010 01000100110100 010010 10111100101 010110010010100 010010 101011011 11111101 010010 101111111 11011111 010010 10111111010 110001001 010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 792 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
In my opinion Black Lives do Matter.
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Written on January 01, 2020
Submitted on October 24, 2021
Modified on March 12, 2023
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