Analysis of Keep it dark
Africanicity
Black skin ethnicity
What's this color to me
A blessing or a deficiency
What's my hair to me
What's my texture to me
What's the deligency
Who am I to me
Racism is a disease
From the white supremacists
To them foreign antagonists
Where is the skin pharmacist
To transform me entirely
Not to a metaphor of the skin
But to a newly colored being
With no regards to skin
No black white whatsoever
To a life changing manoeuver
To finally be black over
But still keep the culture
To be past the mind
That only in skin I find
Something to feel my pride
What's the
What's the kindest word for lies
They don't like us for the skin we wear
I wait everyday to witness racist's demise
Where we don't live in a white world, in disguise
And skin doesn't name us
a world where black men don't end up in cuffs
Living life with a fuss
Scheme | AABB BBCB CCCA BDXD EEEE AAAX CXCC CCC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 110100 111011 010100100 11111 111011 101 11111 101001 1010100 11100100 1101100 10110100 110100101 110101010 110111 111010 101101 11001110 111010 11101 1100111 101111 10 1010111 111110111 11101110101 11110011001 011011 0111111101 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 836 |
Words | 167 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
The poem is about the stereotype that African people face, and it talks about how I feel about being a black African. It includes topic such as xenophobia as well, Africans hating Africans.
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Written on June 03, 2022
Submitted by kutigrace9 on June 29, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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