 Studying the Emigre? Here's how you can analyse this poem. In terms of structure, this poem is written as three stanzas. Ellipsis at the beginning creates a fairy tale-like opening. We can see that the speaker romanticises the country that she's from. The Anjom Mont After Child shows that the speaker has a vague memory of the country she left behind. She is an unreliable narrator. The somatic field of light here shows that the speaker only has nostalgic memory of her home country. The metaphor and alliteration here presents time as an enemy. The more time is passing, the less she remembers of her country. This simile shows that she was so young when she emigrated and left her home country that she's forgetting the language of her home city. This hyperbole creates tension. We get the sense that she had to leave her home country because it is now a dictatorship. Yet the simile and the personification here shows the speaker still sees her city as beautiful. She never loses faith in it. This oxymoron hints she may never be able to return.