Analysis of Black
Lilia Acevedo-Acosta 1979 (Texas)
Black is not the color of my soul.
Black is the color of coal.
Black is a shade and an a hue,
never bright like in light,
but dark as in the night.
Is black just a color or is something
else,
an adjective used to describe
something boring
which will have you snoring.
Is black just a metaphor for a word itself
or am I just looking for a book on a shelf
to become allegory for what is to come
simply put not having any fun.
Meaning the book on the shelf is what you get but
not what you necessarily see, just like the color black
which is shadowy.
Black is a word and it sounds kind of dreary,
incomplete, and perilously. and it'd
make oneself oh so weary.
Scheme | AAXBB CXXCCDDXX XXEEXE |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (25%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 111010111 1101011 11010101 101101 111001 1110101110 1 11001101 1010 111110 111010010101 111110101101 10110011111 101110101 100110111111 11101001110101 11100 11010111110 00101000010 111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 9, 6 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 44 |
About this poem
It's a descriptive word used in many forms.
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Written on September 06, 2021
Submitted by lilac_26 on September 06, 2021
Modified on April 26, 2023
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