Analysis of Burden Of Color
Burden Of Color
White privilege perpetuates pain
It’s presence discriminates
An odor of superiority
Rising out of weakness
It wipes out humility
In favor of false pride
Pushing everyone aside
Eliminating bridges
In favor of walls.
The burden of color is benignity
It’s the antidote for bigotry
Bringing balance
To the excess of power
Held too long
By closed hands
So unwilling to share
Only evil abides by absolutes
Refusing to accept all hues.
Love is the right of all life
Where privileges die
In favor of acceptance
We are one sentient species
A human race who bleeds
One color underneath
Humanity is the poetry
Creation writes to continue
Verses in every color.
Copyright © 2023 Charles Edward York
No part of this poem may be used or reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any way or form or by any means electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise without the written permission of the author.*
Scheme | A XXBXBCCXX BBDAXXXXX XXDXXXBXA XA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 10110 1100101 110010 110100100 101110 1110100 010111 101001 010010 01011 01011011 10101100 1010 101110 111 111 101011 101001110 01010111 1101111 11001 0101010 111110 010111 11001 010010100 01011010 10010010 101101 111110111101100010101010010111111010100100010110010100101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 934 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 9, 9, 9, 2 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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The scourge of white privilege and its antidote
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