Gwendolyn Brooks “We Real Cool” is a poem of ten lines divided into four stanzas. Brooks uses some rhyming in this poem with line three and four rhyming “We real cool. We / Left school. We” (2. 3-4) and line seven and eight rhyming “Sing sin. We / Thin gin. We” (3. 7-8). This lyric poem has no plot, but shows the speaker making an agreement known among his group. The speaker of the poem seems to be the leader implementing seven wrongful things for the seven people to agree upon. The poem show emphasis of beginning each action sentences with the word “we” to show how the group will do these seven wrongful actions together by mentioning: “We / Lurk late. We / Strike straight. We” (2-3. 4-6). The poem also seems to show symbolism with the number