Analysis of The Transformative Wonder of My Mother

Marilyn El-Abidin 1968 (Passaic)



It has not always been easy knowing you
or being your daughter
Fear, guilt, never feeling completely understood
mental, emotional, physical abuse

I forgive you

And now you have become meek
and a shadow of what you once were

And now I grieve for the person I knew
Although she is kinder this hour

Would I still have forgiven you
Had you not faded to half the power?

The Transformation is how far we both have come
The forgiveness and everlasting love
Written  on the sun


Scheme ABXX A XB AB AB XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110101 110110 11101001001 10010010001 1011 0111011 00111110 0111101011 11110110 11110101 1111011010 00101111111 001000101 10101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 476
Words 92
Sentences 2
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 63
Words per stanza (avg) 15

About this poem

This power was written during a writer's workshop when a participant mentioned her again parents. The writing prompt was "transformative wonder"

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Written on April 05, 2022

Submitted by on April 05, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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