And Now We Know
And Now We Know
By Chris Commodore © 2008
They tried to hide it all from us
Did not want us to know
Those riches glued together
In pockets of patched paper
Blocking all doors
Do Not Enter signs posted
With fire hoses
Pitiful conditions
Vicious snarling dogs
Clubs taunting
Unprovoked attacks
When we walked the streets
But they got tired of themselves
Justice prevailed
The water hoses ran dry
The dogs whimpering
Came up to us and licked our sores
Still, some in strange dress and headgear
Now just whispers and stares
The sun shines now forever
Revealing everything
In the great halls of justice
We found out
And now we know
About this poem
This poem was crafted after as a result of an African-American Literature presentation in the spring of 2008.
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Submitted by ti.min on October 16, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | Ax bacc dxxx xexx xxxed xxcebxA |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 633 |
Words | 119 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4, 5, 7 |
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