Analysis of We Must Face History
Facing history
of those defaced
in history.
Those ghettoed
by racial segregation,
wearing badges of dishonor
imposed upon them.
Those composed badges
decomposed in history
by logistics of mass murder.
Employed by those classed;
treated as Masters
in capitalist adventures
by imperialist impetus.
Encamping some as victims
of virulent mass murders,
of horrors unforgettable.
Who can quantify this malady of evil?
Who can measure its extent?
Who can estimate, assess the weight?
Who can stare blindly and deny?
Hyper-intense is the pain
that by fear is perpetuated
and by hatred sustained.
Oh, the madness
and the bitterness.
Oh, the everlasting sadness
to be labeled as “The Other:”
Jews, blacks, colored, “queers,”
Africans, Armenians…
Serbs and “wetbacks” — Native Americans.
“Mischlinge” breeds of poisoned multi stripes.
Multi breeds ignominiously ranked.
All because of various fears;
displaced, defaced, replaced.
Perceived as social miscreants.
The lumpen proletariat class;
Society’s human underclass.
Devoid of any human consciousness.
Oppressed, suppressed, depressed
by systemic human justification
as the scum of the earth.
We must face history
of those defaced in history.
We must must defeat the common enemy.
We must face history
of those defaced in history.
We must defeat the common enemy
that is buried deep within the human soul.
Scheme | aba bcdx xad xeef xeg gxxx xxx fffd hii xxhb xjj fxcx AAa AAax |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10100 1101 0100 11 110010 10101010 01011 10110 010100 10101110 01111 10110 01000010 101000100 11110 1100110 1100100 11101100110 1110101 111000101 11110001 1001101 11110100 011001 1010 00100 1001010 11101010 11101 1000100 101100100 11110101 10111 10111001 01011 01110100 0101001 11010 0111010100 010101 1010100010 101101 111100 11010100 11101010100 111100 11010100 1101010100 11101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,391 |
Words | 256 |
Sentences | 24 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 49 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
About this poem
Antisemitism, racism, sexism, authoritarianism, anarchism, amoralism and other evil ideological isms are the maladies that historically plague human societies. The source of this pervasive illness lies buried in the human psyche and is a flaw of human nature that urgently begs for healing.
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Written on January 19, 2022
Submitted by karlcfolkes on January 17, 2022
Modified on May 02, 2023
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