Analysis of A shadow cast from a hollowed shell
There stood a pair of willow trees.
Filled with life and all their leaves.
Days go by and seasons passed.
Both concured this cannot last.
While one stood mighty and tall.
The other's leaves began to fall.
Knowing the inevitable.
One was left miserable.
One tree watched the other crumble and fold.
Knowing the other tree was much too old.
Witnessing this unbearable hell.
The standing tree was left a hollowed shell.
Days go by and seasons passed.
Where once stood two trees a shadow was cast.
Left with nothing but a memory.
Now there stood just one tree.
Stuck beneath a lingering cloud.
The tree must remember the other was proud.
It enjoyed the life that they both shared.
It loved the other tree and always cared.
The sun rises wishing to expell
the shadow cast from the hollowed shell.
The skies open as rain begins to fall.
As if to answer the tree's call.
Where once stood a pair of willow trees
Filled with life and all their leaves.
Now stands a single tree, listening for
his whisper amongst the breeze.
Scheme | aBCc ddee ffgg Cchh iijj dgdd aBxa |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (71%) |
Metre | 1101111 1110111 1110101 111101 1111001 01010111 10001000 1111000 1110101001 1001011111 100101001 0101110101 1110101 111110111 111010100 111111 10101001 01101001011 101011111 110101011 01101011 01110101 0110110111 11110011 11101111 1110111 1101011001 1100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,022 |
Words | 214 |
Sentences | 25 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem about/for my sister. This is about her struggle with our Father's passing.
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Written on February 10, 2024
Submitted by Stevenanderson809 on February 10, 2024
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