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Black people

♡ POEMAHONTAS ♡ POEMADONNA ♡

50 shades of black
We're colorful people
True freedom we lack
Hardly treated equal

Free with no rights
Now how is that right
No coloreds allowed
This is only for whites

Slaved, tortured,
Killed, raped
The law allowed
This to take place

History repeats
History erased
Condemned by man
Because of your race
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Submitted on June 14, 2016

Modified on March 20, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CXDC XXDE XXXE
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 289
Words 53
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
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