Analysis of "Street Smart"

Jossa Macascas 1987 (General Santos City)



A Waken cat in the street,
Like a black dog that goes freak.
They are the kids in smokey late night,
A wild weed striving to survive.

Uneducated nor learned in school,
For them and who are they,
Able to read and write,
Is enough to beat life's fight everyday.

Having the experience and knowledge,
Necessity to deal with potential difficulties,
Or dangers of life in urban environment,
I really saluted this kind of confident in self.

A street where their lives sharpen,
Is their teachers where they've learned,
Smart street is what others calling,
Some kind of knowledge schools not haven.

Success is not always from academic learning,
A no read, no write man has a story which is inspiring,
From rags to riches,
From nothing, something, until everything.

Dreaming for success deals a solid determination,
Like a street smart who strengthened by puberty,
and sometimes an evil tempting to test survivors' dignity.
Here comes the street smart not to let it happen that way.


Scheme XXAX XBAB XXXX CXDC DDXD CEEB
Poetic Form
Metre 0101001 1011111 110101011 01110101 01001101 110111 101101 1011111101 1000100010 01001110101000 110110100100 11001011110001 0111110 1110111 11111010 111101110 01111101010 011111101011010 11110 110100110 1010110100010 10111101100 0011101011010100 1101111111011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 996
Words 198
Sentences 8
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 130
Words per stanza (avg) 28

About this poem

A poem is an inspiration for everyone to build self esteem especially who suffered from not believing their self potentials and used to stay on that belief. We are all wanting for success but the problem is with in as having negativity in mind set which is not true. A poem Street Smart will serve as inspiration for those who believe and wait for the process, for success is not suddenly to happen, it takes time and determination.

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Written on January 23, 2023

Submitted by macascasjossa on January 23, 2023

Modified on April 03, 2023

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Jossa Macascas

A Filipina who loves to read and write and always picking ideas out of it. more…

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