Analysis of Immigration Nation



You have got to be kidding me
You want to send someone back, as a refugee
Someone, who helped us, become, what we are
Someone, who helped us, go quite far

It is ignoble, at best
Without direction, or even some kind of test
To say to this people, "you must go home"
Speaks a swagger, as if from Rome

There is better politics
Show them the rules, then sign the agreement they pick
Such an honorable people to now
Displacement, is simply not how
!
!
!
Mexicans received thirty Congressional Medals of Honor, for their performance, during WWII.


Scheme AABB CCDD XXEE X
Poetic Form
Metre 11111101 11111110100 111101111 1111111 1101011 010101101111 1111101111 10101111 111010 110111001011 1110001011 01011011 1 1 1 100011001001011011010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 525
Words 97
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 140
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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