Poetry analysis

= on paper = BY JACQUELINE WOODSON

The first time I write my full name

Jacqueline Amanda Woodson

without anybody's help

on a clean white page in my composition notebook,

I know

if I wanted to

I could write anything.

Letters becoming words, words gathering meaning,

becoming

thoughts outside my head

becoming sentences

written by

Jacqueline Amanda Woodson

The poetry On paper has many elements of poetry that make it one of my favorite poetry. First, in the poem, there is rhyme like gathering/ meaning/ becoming. This rhyming makes it musical. Then, there is metaphors like “Letters becoming words, words gathering meaning, becoming thoughts outside my head”. That make poem more meaningful and make out some childness for it. Additionally, in the poem, it had repetition like three “becoming” and two “I can write”. It makes rhythm for poem. In the poem had rhyme, metaphors and repetition to make it one of my favorite poetry.