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The Weight of One's Shadow

Erika Seshadri

May 22 
Free verse
The weight of one’s shadow depends
on the person from whom it descends

Are they perfidious or pure,
mephitic or mild?

Are they luminous in brume
or turbid in still waters?

A shadow oft reveals itself
in the company of others

Heavy shadows share their weight
with anyone who listens

Wispy shadows coruscate,
luminesce and glisten
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Submitted on May 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AA XB XC XC XX BX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 336
Words 66
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
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