Analysis of The Colour of Mankind
Rahimeen Lodhi 2005 (Toronto)
We don’t even realise,
What society has become.
We all are just trying to survive,
But our hearts have gone numb.
We turn a blind eye,
To other’s suffering and pain.
Deaf to the helpless who cry,
Greed engulfed us like a hurricane.
False promises falling like rain,
Brother against brother - dying in vain,
Humanity behind bars and held under the chain,
All this hate left a bloodstain.
Hopes and dreams flushed down the drain,
The evil desires of people we can’t contain,
Yet we can’t do anything but complain.
All this is driving mankind insane.
Only by being tanned,
Are you made an outcast.
Making life like quicksand
Or a fatal bomb in full blast.
The colour of his shield
That is protecting his heart,
Doesn’t matter on the battlefield,
When fighting a war he didn’t start.
Imagine putting many under threat,
Because of the spread of this destructive mindset,
Leaving thousands submerged in a sea of regret,
Fading away like a burnt cigarette.
The vicious cycles of hatred is a lost bet,
And so they fell prey to a life long debt.
These beads formed from their own sweat,
Around their collar is a necklace of fret.
We bleed the same colour,
We breathe the same air,
The value of life doesn’t get smaller,
Just because society doesn’t play fair.
The colour of our skin
Doesn’t define our place,
It’s what shines from within,
Not the hue of our face.
To ponder of the injustice against our kind,
How many more fallen soldiers and injured souls
Do we need to sacrifice to leave this horror behind,
Just to break free from bigotry’s controls?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 10100101 111110101 1101111 11011 11010001 1101011 10111010 11001011 1001101001 0100011011001 111101 1011101 0100101101101 111110101 111101101 101101 11111 10111 10101011 01111 1101011 1101010 11001111 0101010101 01101110101 101001001101 100110101 010101101011 0111110111 1111111 01110101011 11011 11011 010111110 1010100111 011101 101101 111101 1011101 1101001001101 110110100101 1111101111001 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,524 |
Words | 276 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 8, 4, 4, 8, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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