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 |
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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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