In The Heat Of The Night
"In the heat of the night",
a Ray Charles' chant,
not only a song and a film
but a portrait of our time,
provoking, disturbing, uphill.
Telling of segregation
and of human relation,
-in the heat of the night-
when murder is trying to hide,
and suspicion, hatred and bribe
at last, step aside,
not just in the face of a brilliant mind,
but in honour of virtue, honesty, skill
that transcend race, time, human will.
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Submitted by donka_k on July 20, 2019
Modified on April 18, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AbcdeffAghgiee |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 413 |
Words | 77 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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