Analysis of 22yrs old and born Winston-Salem (an ode to Langston Hughes)
you critiqued my critique
of a dead white man's societal critique
you gave me a b
i suppose we see things differently
like langston's critique of english b
before me
my education is what i see
what i choose to write is
my representation of reality
i apologize for forgetting
he was born in thirteenseventyeight
i thought learning was the lesson not the date
i know the pain of tracing roots
and i'm sorry I was late
i was just wondering why our realization
didn't explain the hate
it is there then
I still see it now
the consistency
| Scheme | AABBBBBCBDEEFEGEHIB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101 10111010001 11101 101111100 11011101 011 10101111 111111 10010110 10101010 11101 11101010101 11011101 0110111 1111001101010 100101 1111 11111 00100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 533 |
| Words | 100 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 19 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 430 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
About this poem
A critique of what it means to be educated inspired by reading Langston Hughes and finding out that I was born in Winston-Salem like him.
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Written on April 25, 1998
Submitted by dyoung on February 24, 2022
Modified on May 01, 2023
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