We Real Cool by “Gwendolyn Brooks” The poem is about seven people playing pool in a bar known as the ‘Golden Shovel’ after school has closed. The poem is relatively short, spanning eight lines divided into four stanzas. The poet uses musical devices to appeal to senses e.g. rhyming words and alliteration. The poem also has three syllables as well as three words in every line except the first and last line, this creates rhythm in the poem, making the poem flow similarly to a song. All the lines end in the word ‘We’. This suggests that the pool players either take pride in their activities or that they are trying to look cool. The sentence ‘We strike straight’ implies that the pool players have trained or played pool for a long time, making