Analysis of Shadows of Self-Love



In shadows, born of love's dark night,
I wandered lost, a soul in flight.
With parents' love forever lost,
Insecurity, my heavy cost.

A hollow ache, an empty core,
I longed for love, forevermore.
But in the depths, a flame did burn,
A self-love lesson hard to learn.

I looked within, through tear-filled eyes,
To find the strength to self-advised.
Insecurity may still abide,
But self-love fills the void inside.

For in the mirror, I now find,
A love profound, of every kind.
The past, a ghost, no longer reigns,
In my own love, I break the chains.


Scheme AAXX BBCC XXDD EEFF
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 0111111 11010101 11010101 01001101 01011101 11111 10010111 01110111 11011111 11011101 01001101 11110101 10010111 010111001 01011101 01111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 551
Words 116
Sentences 8
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 104
Words per stanza (avg) 25

About this poem

This poem is about being insecure because of growing up without parental stability, and not having them to rely on and only you own love.

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Written on November 06, 2023

Submitted by SMason.dwe on November 06, 2023

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