Analysis of Black people know you are worth it
Ledwaba Rosina 2006 (Limpopo)
Black child do you know who you are?
Do u know your roots?
Do u follow your culture?
You follow others cultures but not yours.
You don't know your siblings anymore
U suffer because of your doings
God have seen how hurtful you can be
Why don't you tell the new generation about your culture?
Are you ashamed of your culture?
Black child wake up!
Wake up before it's too late!
Think fast!
You don't follow your heart but others,
Just look how beautiful your skin is
Don't you love your skin?
Your skin is your pride!
Wake up and look how this world turned to,
Do you like how it is?
With you following your culture,we can change this world.
Love your culture!
Other people love your culture,
They wish to be like you,
Don't be like that!
Get up and be who you were meant to be.
It's you against your culture,
You can't forget it like this,
The new generations need to know who we are,
And others should accept us the way we are.
Things changed alot.
But we can still fix it before the world fall at our feet.
Viva black people! Viva!
Know you are worth!
We can still make our ancestors proud!
Love yourself for who you are!
Not for who you are told you are.
Scheme | AXBX XXCB BXXX XDXX EDXB BEXC BXAA XXXXXAA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111111 11111 1110110 1101010111 11111001 110011110 111110111 11110101001110 11011110 1111 1101111 11 111011110 111100111 11111 11111 110111111 111111 11100111111 1110 10101110 111111 1111 1101110111 1101110 1101111 01010111111 01010110111 1101 111111010111101 1011010 1111 111110101 1011111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,169 |
Words | 268 |
Sentences | 25 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 7 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
This poem is about encouraging black people to follow their culture
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Written on September 20, 2022
Submitted by lethaborosina374 on September 20, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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