Analysis of A Black Mans Fable is History's Main Course
Charles Jones 1974 (Pennsylvania)
Ollie, Ollie in come free!
Well not for me
I came in through slavery!
Wips and chains belabored me!
God please if you favored me save me!
I still woke up to slavery!
Master raping me! Someone else's shoes reshaped my feet!
My nave,
A grave,
I prayed to see!
My wife,
Humph, I watched the stabbed by Massa's flesh knife!
And served at my dinner table!
Forced to eat crow!
Beat by Jim Crow!
Lynched by Willie or any Silly Billy!
Blood red Piccadilly's
My final photo shoot!
Buried under the roots of the tree hanging Strange Fruit!
On a Holiday Billy, really?
I boot licked and ate s***!
Just to hear the tick
tick
tick!
Talk clock,
Tell time to tell times where the wind chimes covered my cries!
Or when I covered my eyes while my baby's thighs were not so dearly departed!
Oh what a knotted web you weaved!
Collecting the bereaved
Souls for your Wall Street bells to toll!
No soul in being sold!
Just realities cold shoulder!
All while my skin smolders from your Iron Will!
Still I Shield my young from Lashes in the field!
Buffalo Bill killed a lot of blacks for real for real!
And so did John Hancock!
And so did your John Hancock!
And some damn John's hand cocked and shot my n****!
Stop!
No overseeer(officer)!
3/4 of a man you choose for me!
Through my cornrows you travel the road of bigotry!
KKK sprayed blood red cologne in and out the home!
Above and Underground!
Smokey Bones found the market with Chief J Strongbone scalping the head of the table! In the stable
WAS Crazy Horse!
A little late with his horse of course!
A black man's Fable is history's main course!
© Charles Darnell
Scheme | aaaaaax bba ccdee afgga fhHHif x jj xx k xxx i i xxk aa xxdff f x |
---|---|
Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010011 1111 1101100 1010101 111110111 11111100 1010111010111 11 01 1111 11 111011111 01111010 1111 1111 11101101010 111 11011 1010011011011 10101010 111011 11101 1 1 11 1111110111011 11110111110101110010 11010111 010001 11111111 110101 110110 1111111101 11111110001 101101111111 01111 011111 0111110111 1 11100 1011111 111110011100 1111110100101 01010 10110101111100110100010 1101 010111111 01110110011 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,808 |
Words | 365 |
Sentences | 42 |
Stanzas | 17 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 3, 5, 5, 6, 1, 2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 2, 5, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 49 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
A look in pain, degradation, and cruelty towards a people that refuse to break...
Font size:
Written on August 25, 2022
Submitted by truth_f on December 10, 2022
Modified on May 02, 2023
- 1:51 min read
- 224 Views
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem analysis to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"A Black Mans Fable is History's Main Course" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 9 Jun 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem-analysis/147673/a--black-mans-fable-is-history%27s-main-course>.
Discuss this Charles Jones poem analysis with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In