Analysis of Bright Darkness
The shadow of a friend-
The light, that somehow tends..
A play on my fragmented fears-
A trick with all those magic mirrors.
It’s a cloak and dagger game.
It’s some thing that keeps us entertained.
Now a Life, I love to live…
How it ends, I just can’t wait.
Ourselves, we are a ship to steer….
Love me now and keep me near.
All these scenes will shift and bend,
Together we’ll transform-transcend.
| Scheme | AXXX XXXX BBAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 01101 01111 01111001 011111010 1010101 11111101 1011111 1111111 001110111 1110111 1111101 01010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 412 |
| Words | 84 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
Written for my son. I believed he would understand. Poems express what you may not be able to talk about.
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