Analysis of Hermit to emperor
If you lay down your head to rest,
do you feel my heartbeat
as the way to dream?
With your head on my chest,
I no longer feel hemmed in
by my own inner void,
that never fills the same space.
For me too, in that moment,
the road to sleep is open,
to a world incorporeal;
a world living
in images,
breathing colours
hardly in existence.
By your hands, when they lead me
down that road, the waking greys are lifted
and I am freed from being unheard, unread,
a mere stepping stone to elsewhere.
But if I utter not, act not,
why then should I be heard?
I cloister myself,
until I come to your hands again,
once more find the nest to rest.
I can only be Emperor
if you are yourself unvaulted
and in all times
can dream on my chest.
Scheme | AXX AXXB XXX XXBX XXXX XXXXA XAXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 11111 10111 111111 1110110 111101 1101011 1110110 0111110 1011 0110 0100 101 100010 1111111 1110101110 01111100101 0110111 11110111 111111 1101 011111101 1110111 11101100 111011 0011 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 700 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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A poem about people (me and my wife) helping each opther along finding a way out of trauma together
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