Analysis of People
Jean Toomer 1894 (Washington, D.C.) – 1967 (Doylestown)
To those fixed on white,
White is white,
To those fixed on black,
It is the same,
And red is red,
Yellow, yellow-
Surely there are such sights
In the many colored world,
Or in the mind.
The strange thing is that
These people never see themselves
Or you, or me.
Are they not in their minds?
Are we not in the world?
This is a curious blindness
For those that are color blind.
What queer beliefs
That men who believe in sights
Disbelieve in seers.
O people, if you but used
Your other eyes
You would see beings.
Scheme | AAXXXXBCDXXX XCXDXBX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 111 11111 1101 0111 1010 101111 0010101 1001 01111 11010101 1111 111011 111001 11010010 1111101 1101 1110101 00101 1101111 1101 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 496 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 7, 3 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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