Analysis of Shadowbox
This I tell myself over and again
In the midst of sorrow, the pain and regret,
"Make sure you remember to never forget
This which I tell myself over and again:
It was from the deepest depth
That I saw the heighest height,
From the darkest dark,
I saw the brightest light,
From the pain of payment,
I found joy to give away,
Without all the losses,
I'd have nothing to gain,
This I tell myself over and again,
Seems I couldn't know one without the other,
"Never forget, come hell or high water."
Learn when wrong what it is to be right,
This I tell myself
For this, still I fight
Scheme | AbbacdedfghiAjjdkd |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110001 00111001001 11101011001 1111110001 1110101 111011 10101 110101 101110 1111101 011010 111011 111110001 11101101010 1001111110 111111111 1111 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 578 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 446 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
About this poem
I wrote this in a dark time of life. Circumstances in life at the time rendered me in a hopeless, depressive state that I yearned to break free of. The poem explains that it's from bad places that we see the better. For me, it took knowing all the misery and bad to know what was good and with that I learned to appreciate things more.
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Written on September 12, 2017
Submitted by marshall_w on January 17, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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