Analysis of MY COLOR IS BLACK
Dr. T. Pinnock 1962 (Hartford, Ct)
I came from my people.
I was put in a home because
my people could not take care of me.
All these people were around me.
I did not know what to do.
I hid my face. I did not want to look.
I made a friend name Joe, who was my best friend.
This hospital is my home.
My friend helped me to understand,
I had to leave the hospital.
I lived home for two years.
Then I came to another hospital.
They put me away,
That I didn’t understand,
Until I found out what I am,
It will be a mystery.
Theodore Arthur Pinnock
Age 8
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110 11100101 110111111 11100011 1111111 1111111111 11011111111 110111 1111101 1111010 111111 111101010 11101 11101 01111111 1110100 101010 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 498 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 16, 2 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 194 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
About this poem
In this poem, there is a recorded history of the inception of Dr. Pinnock's incessant desire to belong. At 8 he felt rejected and alone. Today he feels the same.
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