Analysis of The Fear of Fear



New friends he never tries to find
With fear he won't confess.
They might reject, which fills his mind
More than his loneliness.


Scheme ABAC
Poetic Form
Metre 11110111 111101 11011111 111100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 129
Words 25
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 102
Words per stanza (avg) 23

About this poem

A very brief summary of my shyness.

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Submitted by steveac21 on October 10, 2022

Modified on March 21, 2023

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