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.
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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Submitted by hollie.simpson1 on January 28, 2024
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABBXX ACAC XXXXX C |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 387 |
Words | 87 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 5, 1 |
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