Analysis of Shadow
death
follows me closely
while life
retreats into shadows
shunning
gnarled fingers
of winters hand
my heart
palpitates a lonesome song
a ponderance of youth
yearning days of old
where children play
in bright summer fields
and laughter
is caught
in the bubbles they blew
lifted with the wind
bursting of sunshine giggles
covering the land in smiles
as the scent of mom's apple pie
sent children scurrying home...
I feel death's chill
twitting my memories
mockingly reminding...
that my home
is with him now
as my eyes
fell silent
and my heart
cease to beat
into
the
shadow
i
descend
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWEUXYZH1 P2 3 T4 |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (51%) |
Metre | 1 10110 11 01011 10 110 1101 11 1000101 0111 10111 1101 01101 010 11 001011 10101 101110 1000101 10111101 1101001 1111 11100 1010 111 1111 111 110 011 111 01 0 1 1 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 35 |
Lines Amount | 35 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 473 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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