Double Standard Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BACDEEAFFEEGGHIJJEEK LMNOPPQQRSTUVWXYYZZY A2A2| Get your knee off my neck | A |
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| And while you doing injustice | B |
| While not breathing and in a wreck | A |
| Where justice is not for us | C |
| Never for us but for those | D |
| Who are not like me | E |
| Or too blind to see | E |
| They got their knee on my neck | A |
| While taking our air | F |
| From our bodies because you don t really care | F |
| Because you re not like me | E |
| Or you just only see | E |
| A black man in a hood | G |
| Thinking he s up to no good | G |
| So you stop him and throw him down | H |
| On the ground | I |
| You holler at me then press | J |
| Your knee hard body strong and yes | J |
| You killed me softly | E |
| Not with a song but murdered you see | E |
| Setting us back years | K |
| With the sweat and tears | L |
| Going down the drain | M |
| And all there remains | N |
| Another dead nigger one more time | O |
| Another one dying | P |
| While mothers are crying | P |
| And fathers' hearts turn to stone | Q |
| And grandparents sitting all alone | Q |
| Thinking about and asking why | R |
| The man who supposed to be a leader | S |
| Is like a man with a white hood the beaten | T |
| The pain master war maker trouble man | U |
| Excusing violence where we stand | V |
| While like Nero watching the city burn | W |
| No expression no feeling and his back turned | X |
| Eyes blinded with no cares at all | Y |
| Watching the city fall | Y |
| Will this end | Z |
| Or just pretend | Z |
| Nothing matters at all | Y |
| While our nation falls | A2 |
| While our nation falls | A2 |
Kenneth R. Jenkins
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