Analysis of To discriminate



To Discriminate,
To make me feel like i'm nothing, like there's nothing going on in my head, DEAD, that cold, blistering, mid-night chill dead
Or maybe I wasn't born, or....
maybe YOU'RE dead, with nothing in
your head
To discriminate against me
Against my gender, why my gender?
Shouldn't it be, that to see differently and be different should mean nothing
since everyone is?
But to come to me and tell me, that MY different is too different because of my gender
MAKES ME LAUGH
because those who discriminate have nothing in their heads
THEY are dead
Or maybe they weren't born yet,
Or maybe they were born wrong and need to go through another Renaissance
and like Davinci,
paint a picture that is worth a thousand words
Hopefully, their picture will show them that discrimination is the Greatest abomination
WE shouldn't but we DO,
Because we are different
So I have to deal with it
And if I am the metal
I WILL NOT BREAK EASILY


Scheme ABCDBEFGHFIJBKLEMNOPQRE
Poetic Form
Metre 1010 1111111011101010111111001111 11011011 10111100 11 1010011 011101110 1011111100011001110 1101 111110111110011100011110 111 0111010110011 111 11011011 11010110111101001 0101 10101110101 1001101111001010100010 110111 0111100 1111111 0111010 1111100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 908
Words 167
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 23
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 735
Words per stanza (avg) 167
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Submitted on April 11, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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