Analysis of Travelling on the Track
Come on down to the Eastern land,
Where Westerners cry to the colonized man,
Where liars find cannibals in Sudan,
And they write up propaganda and laugh at their scam,
Find the brothers on the train-boats,
Having the time of their life,
Because those Westerners are heroes in spite
Of the scars left heavy for their children to fight,
Hear the fierce woman fight for her rights,
Abolish partial laws, sleep better in the nights,
Breathe her rich culture and share her dance,
Don’t let those impotent Westerners lock you in a trance,
Look out for parades, red, yellow, green and black,
Success of the people travelling on the track,
Outcry of freedom, faith of the promised land,
Where equality stands strong for all hand-in-hand.
Scheme | A B B X X X C C D D E E F F A A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 1100110101 1101100001 011101001111 10101011 1001111 01110011001 101110111011 101101101 010101110001 101100101 11110010011001 11101110101 011010100101 1110110101 101001111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 774 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
About this poem
This is a Poem based around Black History Month and touches on the origins of post-colonialism in Africa and its evolution to African-Americans gaining rights, black women standing up for their rights and essentially the joy and celebration that is now what Black History Month is today.
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