Analysis of They lied to you
I am an African
and they lied to you
they told you I was always hungry and with a heart that only longed for food and remedies... but they lied to you
they said I ran with cheetahs slept with goats and couldn't tell the difference between a socks and a coat... oh they lied to you
they said I was dumb and couldn't understand the potency of science and it's technologies and the skills behind it's discoveries
but now I'm rocking calculus to sleep with the tunes played from wisdom that is me...
finding the deferential values of quantities like picking a strand of beef from my teeth integrating them into larger domains and solving the probabilities hidden within every outcome of any name
screaming out to this deaf world
that I am an African and they lied to you
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111100 01111 111111100101110111010011111 111111011101010100010100111111 111110100101001100101000010110100 11110100111011110111 1000101011001100111111100101100101000100100110011101 1011111 111110001111 |
| Characters | 758 |
| Words | 141 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 68 |
| Words per line (avg) | 16 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 612 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 141 |
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Submitted on October 31, 2014
Modified on April 06, 2023
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