Under No Certain Terms Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDEFGHIJKLHIMNOBPQRS LEBDITU IITVTVTWXFYZA2B2C2D2 BE2F2G2LH2I2J2K2L2MM 2N2 O2P2Q2P2R2S2MT2U2V2V 2Poetry the Masses | A |
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FREEDOM | B |
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Not a state of mind | C |
But a way of life | D |
A statement of hope | E |
The words signed contracted on a piece of paper | F |
Sometimes broken torn and scorned | G |
Freedom is | H |
What we want b | I |
But can t in spite of the abuse | J |
The system gives out | K |
Like tickets to a slave auction | L |
Freedom was as is | H |
Use to be | I |
Has been back in the day | M |
When it was fought for and | N |
Then won hands down | O |
And those words of freedom | B |
On our lips | P |
I ll be damn | Q |
Someone comes to mess it up | R |
Making it bad | S |
For the next one | L |
Making it look like there is no hope | E |
There is no freedom | B |
There is no life | D |
And so I waddle in pity | I |
Like it ain t nobody s business | T |
Nobody s business but my own | U |
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And if you are born in this country | I |
The chances are fifty fifty | I |
Zero for us | T |
Fifty for them | V |
Zero for us | T |
Sixty for them | V |
Zero for us | T |
Move nigger move | W |
Work nigger work | X |
Bend that black ass of yours nigger | F |
Now let me bend my yellow ass u to kiss | Y |
After Malcolm Martin and the rest | Z |
Came on the scene | A2 |
To bring it on | B2 |
And died for the freedom we need | C2 |
Like a crack head needing crack | D2 |
They preached the gospel of freedom | B |
And now their voices are silenced | E2 |
Only hearing the winds of their words | F2 |
Bellowing loud and clear | G2 |
But do we listen | L |
What s the matter fool | H2 |
Do you hear the cry | I2 |
From the streets of Southside Chicago | J2 |
To New York s Harlem streets | K2 |
To the Deep South s cotton fields | L2 |
To every alleyway | M |
To every Church | M2 |
The cry of freedom is still there | N2 |
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Yes they cry freedom in South Africa | O2 |
But is it heard | P2 |
Yes they cry freedom in Israel | Q2 |
But is it heard | P2 |
Under no certain terms | R2 |
We must turn our heads | S2 |
Looking the other way | M |
Say I can t do it | T2 |
But instead saying | U2 |
I DO BELIEVE | V2 |
Yes I do believe | V2 |
Kenneth R. Jenkins
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