Analysis of Shadow
On the eve of the inevitable hour,
The tree sway heavily on a cold night,
It branches swing to the sonorous wind,
Exhausted leafs on earth are cascading.
My eyes twinkle as they dimmed with tears,
Outlandish smile on my crinkle and jaded lips,
My face wrinkle in unending desperation,
In regretful melancholy I sigh into the air,
As you stare at me in an instructive manner.
Cockcrow at dawn of the very hour,
Your footsteps glide in the shadow of darkness,
As you walk down the crooked path and
Fade to nothingness in everlasting peace.
In the blazing early morning sun,
The farewell dirge rent the atmosphere,
Mourning from the abyss of a troubled heart,
The mourners mourn in silent sympathy,
Of what seems to them an irreplaceable loss.
Days gone by in sighing and dismay,
I still wander in cold silence of your thoughts,
My bare forehead gleams at the receding sun,
As I bid you farewell in your solitary transition
to the unknown and great world of the beyond.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101100100010 0111001011 1101101001 0101111010 111011111 01011110101 11100010010 0010100110101 111110101010 111101010 111001110 111101010 1110000101 001010101 0111010 10100110101 0101010100 111111001001 111010001 11100110111 11101100101 1111101100010 10010111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 973 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 4, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
About this poem
The poem is a dirge that I composed in honor of my late mum.
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