Analysis of Shadows Of Light
When night
is your mistress
all wishing is gone
Espoused to
the sun
till divorce came along
Hope
your one offspring
lying dead in repose
Philandering
blindness
— your tryst ill disposed
(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)
| Scheme | XAXXXXXBXBAX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 1110 11011 011 01 101101 1 111 101001 100 10 11101 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 218 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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