Analysis of Dark Shadows



Is there room
in your ignorance
for truth to creep in

Are the doors
closed and locked
from inside and within

Will the light
truly gifted
pass over and by

Is your meadow
a wasteland
—and haven for lies

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)


Scheme XXA XXA XXX XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 111 01100 11110 101 101 101001 101 1010 11001 111 01 01011 1010
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 235
Words 46
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 37
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on November 30, 2023

Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on November 30, 2023

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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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