Analysis of Taking Place
All the wars that take place
All the murders that take place
All the genocides that take place
All the rapes that take place
All the wrongful convictions that take place
Nothing can take the place of the pain endured by the world’s Black race
| Scheme | AAAAAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Monorhyme |
| Metre | 101111 1010111 1010111 101111 1010010111 1011011010110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 250 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 197 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
About this poem
Societal pain inflicted on people of color only because of their race
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Written on March 15, 2022
Submitted by duck128hileyst on March 16, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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