Analysis of Child of Immigrants



This is a street

where I grew older

A place where you always hear a beat

And life grew colder

a hope for tomorrow

Inside you feel the binds

of the ghetto sorrow

Grandma raised me

becasue Mami and Papi had to work

Nothing I knew was true

yet I keep my smirk

I read and write

Learn words of the white

I belive I can win

Go some where diffrent from where I've been

The world is ours

That don't change because of native shores.


Scheme A B A B C X C X D X D E E F F X X
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 11110 01111101 01110 01101 011101 101010 1011 1101111 101111 11111 1101 11101 11111 11111111 01110 111011101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 419
Words 88
Sentences 1
Stanzas 17
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 20
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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