Analysis of segregation lives on American Radio~( a repost)



Segregation lives on American Radio

Long after the days of Old' Jim Crow
Segregation lives on American Radio
Can't have those thugs mixin' with your Rock n' Roll
Segregation lives on American Radio
Can't have those hillbilly's mixin' with your Soul
Where would the Rastafarians be?
If they didn't hear country over their AM signals
We would not have our Marley
And if little boy Lewis and Presley
Didn't cross the other side of the railroad tracks
To hear the music people said was too black
You'd still be hearing Paul Whiteman's Jazz
(Who's that? Thank Goodness you have to ask)
But years gone by and Arbitron tested
Segregation lives to American Radio
You boys go there and we won't come here
Turn on your radio to hear good music
Same song plays twice and hour for you to abuse it

Segregation lives on American Radio….


Scheme A aAbAbcxccxxxxxaxxx A
Poetic Form
Metre 01011010010 110011111 01011010010 1111111111 01011010010 11111111 11011 1110110101110 11111010 0110110010 10101011011 11010101111 11110111 111101111 111101010 01011010010 111101111 1111011110 1111010111011 01011010010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 805
Words 146
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 18, 1
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 219
Words per stanza (avg) 49
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Submitted on August 31, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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