Analysis of The déséquilibre
So much is lost
Dans une autre langue.
To speak in another tongue
De se cacher
Who you have become.
Ceux qui te comprennent
They can never understand you, you’re being lied to.
Une moité-moite, une mixité
Do they know what it means to you?
Tu lis toi-même
Into a person and a half,
Doubled up —
It never feels like enough.
Est-ce qu’il y a plus?
The power of two.
| Scheme | ABBXX ACAC XXXXX C |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 1111 1100101 111 11101 1111 111001111011 11111 11111111 11111 01010001 101 1101101 0111101 01011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 387 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 5, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
My piece deals with my struggle of learning another language and the overpowering desire of wanting to be as much culturally enriched as I am in my own culture.
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