Analysis “The One” By Crystal R.

Adame
BY Group 7:
- Moch Ekky Syahruhdin
- Mirza Hanani

The One
Crystal R. Adame
The one who brought me down to earth
And held me every day.
The one who gracefully gave me birth
And said, I love you in every way.

The one who taught me everything,

Like how to crawl and walk.
The one who taught me how to sing
After learning how to talk.

The one who told me, stay in school

And always play nice.
The one who told me, keep it cool,
And gave me good advice.

The one who taught me how to read

And how to do my math.
The one who taught me how to bead
And told me to take a bath.

The one who lectured, school before a man

And to love one another.
Believe me that this woman
Can be no one but my Mother!
- The Meaning of The Poetry

This poem tell us about love from mother to her son/daughter it imply with the line that
mention “The one who gracefully gave me birth and said, I love you in every way”. In
this sentences mentioned that The one who gracefully gave me birth. We have already
that the one who give us birth is our mother, so the writer give us the meaning of
mother with uses connotation. This poetry also has a deep meaning in human life.

- Techniques this poem uses :

This poem has a strong sense of structure. Every other line begins with "The one
who.“ This structure helps the poem read as a tribute to the mother.

- Kind of Stanza :
This poem is made up of quatrains, which are stanzas that have four lines each.

- Rhyme :
This poem follows the ABAB rhyming pattern. The last words of the first and third
lines rhyme,
and the last words of the second and fourth lines rhyme.
• The one who told me, stay in school, A
• And always play nice. B
• The one who told me, keep it cool, A
• And gave me good advice. B

- Symbol :
Symbol that use in this poetry is Private Symbol “its meaning known to one
person”

- Tone :
This poem use overstatement tone