Analysis of Spotlight



Shining down
Unnerving shame
Embarassments on my face
Shrieks in the night
Everything inside to tame
Rejection and doubt
The solace never came
Different and akward
On this stage
Reaching for strength
And everlasting hope
Hard to gauge
In the spotlight


Scheme ABCDBEBDFGHFD
Poetic Form
Metre 101 0101 1111 1001 100111 01001 010101 10001 111 1011 00101 111 001
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 251
Words 41
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 211
Words per stanza (avg) 41
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Written on August 30, 2023

Submitted by jyork3940 on August 31, 2023

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