Analysis of In Shadows Grow
The mother lode of nighttime verse,
arriving late,
—all Satan’s curse
The dreamer wakes, all sleep forgoes,
old words unbirthed,
—in shadows grow
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
| Scheme | ABA XBX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101111 0101 111 01011101 111 011 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 196 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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