Summary Of Warsan Shire's Poem 'Home'

Warsan Shire’s usage of structure in “Home” helps express the purpose of the poem. In the first two stanzas, there are a few lines that are all about the same length. This shows that the speaker is calmer as they begin to talk about their experiences with fleeing their home country. The third through fifth stanzas have a greater amount of lines that vary more in length from one to two words in a line for the shortest lines to nine to eleven words in the longer ones. This helps convey the sad, frantic feeling someone on the run out of a war-torn country has. The sixth and seventh stanzas continue the pattern with a greater number of lines with more erratic, generally shorter length. The structure adds to the fearful and frantic mood created