Question

what does the speaker think of his shadow in stanza 3

Answer 1

this shadow is very big

Answer 2

Answer :

In stanza three of Robert Louis Stevenson's poem 'My Shadow,' the speaker thinks of his shadow as a coward as it always stays close beside him and is never separated from him. The poet compares the way the shadow sticks to him to the way he stuck to his nurse when he was an infant.

The following lines from the poem supply the answer :

'He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;  

I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!'