The Son is in Secondary School by Affian Sa’at

My badge has a Latin motto
Hope for the future
The future is hope
Or something

At times black crows try to interrupt
When we sing the National Anthem

It is difficult to maintain
The whiteness of my shoes
Especially on Wednesdays

I must admit there is something quite special
About the bare thighs of hardworking scouts

The Malay chauffeurs
Who wait for my schoolmates
Sit on the car park kerb
Telling jokes to one another

Seven to the power of five is unreasonable

On Chinese New Year
Mrs Lee dressed up
In a sarong kebaya
And sang Bengawan Solo

The capital of Singapore is Singapore

My best friend did a heroic thing once
Shaded all A’s
For his Chinese Language
Multiple-choice paper

In our annual yearbook
There is a photograph of me

Pushing a wheelchair and smiling
They caught me
At the exact moment

When my eyes were actually closed


This is an poem which written by Affian Sa’at, and we are given a job by teacher for analyse this poem......

The first stanza is a quatrain, it is about when the writter is going into his new school with hope future.

The second stanza is a couplets, it is about when the national anthem, there are crowds interrupt, it bring us to the scene of the school.

The third stanza is a triplet, it is about the writer's shoes hard to be white in Wednesday, it shows that there is sport lesson in Wednesday, it also show the scene of the school.

The fourth stanza is a couplets, it is about the scouts, and it also shows the scene of the writter's school.

The fifth stanza is a quartiais about the malay student, it shows that the school is filled with different religious and it also shows that the school is filled with happines.

The sixth stanza sngle line, it is about the writter does not understand his math.

The seventh stanza is a quatrain, it shows that the school has multiple religious.

The eighth stanza is a single line, it show the geography of Singapore.

The nineth stanza is a quatrain, it shows us that there are chinese in Singapore.

The tenth stanza is a couplet, it shows that these things is just the memories of the writter.

The eleventh stanza is a triplet, it shows that the writter is old now.

The last stanza is just a single line, it shows that the writter has closed his eye ....and died......