Analysis of Slaves
History says we were owned.
History says we were stoned.
Destitute and beat down to broken bones.
Chained, bound, and whipped.
A slave still holds her mans hand with the tightest of grips.
Families ripped apart.
Tore away from life and sent to another part.
African americans standing still, for a head count.
Slave masters chasing the run aways.
Slaves had lost their hope and now on their own two legs, they count.
Running and sweating.
Running to the next white man to be neglected.
Uneventful to get help from a fellow slave, although brave.
He can only help you on your journey from the night of arrival, til the wake of the next day.
Lying in a shed on a bed made of straw and hay.
To live he or she will be fed slops.
Crazy that today, the same slops are added to grocery carts.
Segregated and mistreated.
Sold a dream and purpously misleaded.
Brought as a group to a place we never needed.
Brought and sold to make some rich mans life easier.
Bartered and traded to make another families life smooth like gravy.
So do I want 40 acers and a mule?
Do I want reparations soon?
No, Id rather just gripe and write about it.
Keeps my mind fresh and allows newer generations to hear about it.
The childeren and teens today dont know about this.
The riots, and the bats, and the batons, the water hoses, and the segregational signs.
Whites this way, blacks that way, and why?
History says we were owned.
History says we were stoned.
Destitute and beat down to broken bones.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001101 1001101 100111101 1101 0111011101011 100101 101110110101 10001001011011 11010011 11111011111111 10010 101011111010 0101111010111 111011111010110101011011 1000110111101 111111111 1010101111011001 1000010 101011 110110111010 101111111100 100101101010011110 11111001 1110101 11101101011 11110011001011011 01010111011 0100010001010100011 11111101 1001101 1001101 100111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,442 |
Words | 271 |
Sentences | 32 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 32 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 271 |
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Submitted on October 15, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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