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 |
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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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