Analysis of The Children Of Immigrants



What am I…?
What do you mean “identity?”
Can someone please give me some clarity?
Do you know who you are?
Come on, show me those scars.
No! Not those ones.
The ones that are inside.
The ones that cut deep.
Please, take me for that ride.
Tell me, why can’t you sleep?
When did that inner child die?
And why must you weep?
They said:
We reside in a world much different than yours.
A world you cannot see and never explore.
Our world divides into two.
One for our family and one for you.
For this, we know it is no one’s fault.
Yet this does not hinder the mental assault.
To know that we made it out and they did not.
Left under the shadow of war and the despots.
But then we are reminded to be grateful.
“Why are you crying when your plate’s full?”
And that statement stands to be correct.
For me, I can’t help but to reflect.
For the others, they remain in a state of cognitive dissonance.
And for you, remember the tale of the children of immigrants.


Scheme ABBCDEFGFGAGHIJKKLLMDNOPPQR
Poetic Form
Metre 111 11110100 111111100 111111 111111 1111 011101 01111 111111 111111 1111011 01111 11 101001110011 01110101001 10101011 11101000111 111111111 11111001001 11111110111 1100111001 11110101110 111101111 011011101 111111101 10101010011100100 0110100110101100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 971
Words 212
Sentences 27
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 27
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 724
Words per stanza (avg) 186
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Submitted by ferdawsashrati on May 19, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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