Analysis of I Wanted to Find America
I wanted to find America
In your bone hair blue eye tan skin
smirk. Surfer boy swag
with fire on your tongue
you looked like freedom
but tasted like ash.
Scarlett red cherry burning up
the dark filled spaces between us.
I needed you to be
West Coast sea shores waving me closer
and New York City lights shining in my laugh
Instead you were bone white mountains
of crushed powder disappearing
into rolled back eyes.
You were black
and blue
And you made sure I'd match. Fit in
Fit in.
This is America.
Scheme | ABACDEFGHIJKLMNOBBA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110100 01111111 11011 110111 11110 11011 10110101 01110011 110111 111110110 01110110011 01101110 1110010 01111 101 01 01111110 10 110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 499 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 398 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 94 |
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