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 |
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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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