Analysis of Just dreaming
Here I sit watching and waiting
while my time goes by
Without a point or purpose
Or to know the reasons why
I'm alive.
There she sits watching
The clock on the wall
It feels so strong
and she feels so small
All of her life is taken
By this illusion, that is time
She feels old.
So why am I counting the sheep
In my head in my bed when I go
To sleep at night?
Am I going crazy or am I just dreaming?
But this dream is way too real
I can smell the sounds
and I'm starting to feel
A creeping
slowly breathing
down my neck...
Who are you? Who are you? Who are you? To doubt the reasons why.
My mistakes are my own
And I don't need no one to sympathize
As I ache and I break and I shake off
All these pains of my past
All I can do is say to you
Let's forget it all and raise our
Tainted glass.
Scheme | ABXBX ACXCXXX XXXA DXDAAX BXXXXXXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 11110010 11111 0101110 1110101 101 11110 01101 1111 01111 1101110 11010111 111 11111001 011011111 1111 111010111110 1111111 11101 011011 010 1010 111 111111111110101 101111 011111110 1110110111 111111 11111111 101110110 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 803 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 7, 4, 6, 8 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Written on March 14, 2016
Submitted by tribeone_b on January 04, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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