Black Lives Matter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDD EFGHADADII DJKILLII MNOPQDRRRRIISTUI LDVWXYZYDA2 B2C2IB2DTI D2E2F2D2DG2CI DH2BCDDDI2ID| a social commentary | A |
| - | |
| Where is the love | B |
| For our brothers | C |
| Gun down for n'o reason | D |
| Killing brothers like it's deer season | D |
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| Why in God's name those in blue | E |
| Are sworn to protect and serve | F |
| Acting like thugs | G |
| And that's not cool | H |
| And while sworn to their duty | A |
| But wearing masks like Klansman | D |
| With terrorist ideas you feel me | A |
| Killing us off one by one by one | D |
| There's nothing more sadder | I |
| Of what's going on and yes Black Lives Matter | I |
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| While we are being stopped for no reason | D |
| Be it a tail light license plate expired | J |
| Or checking IDs to see who are | K |
| We get uptight like Cookie on Empire | I |
| Then expressing the matter at hand | L |
| Off to jail and before the judge's stand | L |
| Funny how things are getting badder | I |
| I still say Black Lives Matter | I |
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| With all this drama on the streets | M |
| And blood is shed one soul at a time | N |
| And with every heart beat | O |
| This world is cruel to be kind | P |
| As they beat us upside our heads | Q |
| There's a refrain repeating again | D |
| Oops upside your head | R |
| Oops upside your head | R |
| Oops upside your head | R |
| Saying oops upside your head | R |
| Fair | I |
| What is fair | I |
| Only in America | S |
| Our bodies bruised and battered | T |
| From battles fought | U |
| Yes I still believe that Black Lives Matter | I |
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| The blue men are getting out of hand | L |
| That's blue men with white skin | D |
| Wearing a frown of evil on their faces | V |
| And not knowing foe or friend | W |
| Even if you come up to them real close | X |
| It's that mask they wear to disguise | Y |
| That burning of hate | Z |
| That you can see in their eyes | Y |
| But just enough and to close you'll burn | D |
| There's evil all around them | A2 |
| - | |
| On the streets we raise hell | B2 |
| Loud and trying to be peaceful | C2 |
| While the noise is deafen everywhere | I |
| The silence in the community begins to swell | B2 |
| And bodies drop one by one by one | D |
| Black bodies are snatched from us and shattered | T |
| But I still believe Black Lives Matter | I |
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| Six million Jews died during the Holocaust | D2 |
| While being held under Hitler's thumb | E2 |
| Now more of our young black men die | F2 |
| With many more souls continue to be lost | D2 |
| For those crimes they say we've done | D |
| While fathers lose their sons | G2 |
| And sons lose their fathers | C |
| Yes Black Lives Do Matter | I |
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| Dear Father I pray for our Black men | D |
| Who died in the heat of all these things | H2 |
| Where's the love | B |
| For our brothers | C |
| That's gunned down for no reason | D |
| Killing them on by one | D |
| Like it's going out of season | D |
| I still believe | I2 |
| Black Lives Matter | I |
| Killing them one by one | D |
Kenneth R. Jenkins
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