Analysis of Empathy
The Blackman in America of the one that was sold
The firstborn killed because of a fearful fold
The bottom-rail, the nigger, the less than gold
The human being victimized, their story untold
The his-tory, changing the shapes that mold
The death from truth the descendant’s withhold
The emptiness of the body from head to toe
The Indian, Palestinian, Syrian and all those
The victims of a world and its careless soul
The insanity of your wanting the others role
The signs that lead to the one and only road
The violence, sex, drugs, to all they promote
The acceptance in you because you uphold
The media propagating lies in order to control
The ignorant believing it and really don’t know
The price to pay on judgement day, is like, whoa
The Truth is in the Art, the two-faced, twofold
The Hebrew slave in Egypt of the days of old
The Secrets “Oh Say Can You See!?” Behold
The Jena Six, Black Wall Street, Rosewood
Willie Lynch…
Empathy, noooooooo.
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| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 957 |
| Words | 170 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 22 |
| Lines Amount | 22 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 752 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 169 |
About this poem
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other being’s frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another’s position. “You can never understand the anger without understanding the pain.“ “How can you understand what happened, or what’s happening? if you don’t know what happened, or what’s happening?
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