Analysis of "The Shadows"
Narrow,
Shadow,
Barrow,
Shallow,
Merely just a narrow shadow now-
Like Hades's pit so barrow, shallow black
Scheme | AAAABC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10 1 10 10 10101011 111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 102 |
Words | 17 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
About this poem
This poem brings to light about why we are naturally afraid of the dark and what lurks in them. Just like when you were a child, frightened by the dark.
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Written on May 24, 2021
Submitted by AlRH on June 03, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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