Analysis of The Babble of an Unproud American



Why is it that America is so free?

When if you look inside we're all locked up like theives.

They say it's a pot with all melted in.

Then why must they seperate the whites from the bin.

I am Spanish American because of my skin.

Then there's an African American.

The one that makes the least sense.

Because if they are African American

(Though they've been here as long as the white)

Then why don't we say oh hello British American?

Born on this soil, yet I am ashamed

To say I am American,

is like saying I'm a scam.

Yo soy Dominicana, pura.

Where the Spanish settled

married some slaves

raped some tainos

and became my race

In Mexico the same happened leaving no white trace

Yet America gets the privalage of saying they are a mix too?

Just white mixes is really what they should say.

Spanish is here, black you stay there

As the white sit on there throne

In the kingdom of false care

Now I will admit theres reverse racism

and special treatment that is unfair

but we would never have needed it

if the white wouldn't have started.

Human nature I guess

to try and hate those for the past

and so i ask you how long will it last?

Till we all realize It started with Adam and Eve,

all sisters and brothers

fighters and lovers.

Yes your hair is blonde

and my skin tan

his eyes are hazel

and her hips big.

Yet we are all here

Not to burden another

but to try and understand

how a world can know so much

yet learn so little

and stay as such

where America the great

is seen as a place

to run to, jump the border swim as fast as you can

When the lies you were told

the mythes of an American Dream


Scheme X A B B B C A C X C X C X X X A A A A X A D X D X D X X A E E X A A X F G X X X X H G H X A F X X
Poetic Form
Metre 11110100111 111101111111 1110111100 1111101101 1110010001111 1111000100 0111011 011111000100 111111101 11111101100100 111111101 11110100 1110101 11001010 101010 1011 111 00111 010011010111 1010010111011011 11101101111 10111111 1011111 0010111 1110110110 010101101 111101101 10110110 101011 11011101 0111111111 1111011011001 110010 10010 11111 0111 11110 0011 11111 1110010 111001 1011111 11110 0111 1010001 11101 1111010111111 101101 011101001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,554
Words 315
Sentences 17
Stanzas 49
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 49
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 25
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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