Analysis of In Shadows Grow
The mother lode of nighttime verse,
arriving late
—by Satan cursed
The dreamer wakes, all sleep forgoes,
old words unbirthed
—in shadows grow
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)
Scheme | XAX XAX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101111 0101 1101 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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