Analysis of Boriqua



I'm a Hispanic because that's what I'm branded...
I'm not a race I'm but a culture...
I'm but a mixture conquered by vultures...
I'm these urban streets that flows within me...
I'm from an island that I rarely see...
I'm born and bred a natural survivor...
I'm not a color for that's a divider...
I'm but a being spirit real strong...
I'm but a mixture black, Indian, White...
I'm but a person blessed with true sight ...
I'm but a warrior prepared for this fight...
I'm but a culture my race is all mixed...
Spaniards on a quest that came over on ships...
I'm but of mixed slaughtered beautiful races...
Embedded with this language from foreign places ...
I Speak a language that came from blood shed...
The Indian and the Black in me will never be dead...
I'm a loud voice a candle that burns...
I'm but a sponge that absorbs as I learn...
I'm but a culture a bunch of lost tribes...
I am what I am till the day I die...Boriqua


Scheme ABCDDBBEFFFGHIIJJKLME
Poetic Form
Metre 100100111110 110111010 1101010110 1110111011 1111011101 11010100010 11010110010 110101011 1101011001 110101111 11010001111 1101011111 10101111011 11111010010 010111011010 1101011111 01000010111011 101101011 1101101111 1101001111 1111110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 909
Words 173
Sentences 22
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 21
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 671
Words per stanza (avg) 174
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Submitted on August 25, 2017

Modified on March 31, 2023

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C Castro

I'm def don't consider myself a poet I started writing after my sister passed away...Just to try and express myself with out having to throw my misery or sadness on anyone else.... At times my poems are dark but that's just how I felt at the moment more…

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