Analysis of poem #13



Black shadows are all sycophants
That mimic every shape.  
White shadows seal their bearers up,
And bury what they ape.  

Black shadows curl off thick sunlight,
And launch themselves from dust.  
White shadows flake from winter’s breath,
Congealed as vapor’s rust.       

In two dimensions, or in three,
Shade and snow are booleans,
Dark in intersection tracing truth.
And snow in difference.


Scheme ABXB XCXC XAXA
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11111 1101001 1111101 010111 111111 010111 1111101 011101 01010101 10111 10010101 010100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 388
Words 61
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 102
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted by DavidPlantinga on June 03, 2021

Modified by DavidPlantinga on June 09, 2021

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