Analysis of Equality (Double Standard)

Robert Schultz 1964 (California)



You will tell me, to my face, you believe  we're equal.
But the paperwork I filled out, feels like a prequel.
Equal, equal, equal, in every shape and form.
Yet, you ask me, what I am, on every form.

Story time, every day, I look you into your eyes.
I hear all your words, I hear all the lies.
Tell me things, only things, I want to hear.
Then you whisper to your friends, I'm really not sincere.

Your parents, their parents, and so on, for so long.
Went to defend, all their rights, singing a war song.
You can't take all my rights, they chant until they die.
The thought of equal, only starts, when the bias dies.


Scheme XXAA BBXX CCXB
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111101110 101011111010 1010100100101 111111111001 10110011110111 1111111101 1111011111 1110111110101 110110011111 110111110011 111111110111 0111010110101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 604
Words 119
Sentences 12
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 152
Words per stanza (avg) 40
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Submitted on March 20, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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