Analysis of Cold Daydream
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
Through the cracks,
Moments leak
Like winter chill seeping under
The door,
Invading this sun-spangled room.
A cold daydream wanders
Through my mind's labyrinth,
Shivering whispers
Curling around
The edges of my thoughts.
I trace the path,
A constellation of
Lost desires in frozen ink.
Silent echoes vibrate
In the corners,
Swirling like frosty breath,
As the world outside
Turns to ice,
The streets empty,
The city asleep.
In this cold daydream,
I am the ghost
Floating through
The snow-kissed air,
Leaving no footprints,
No trace.
I wander the streets,
A solitaire figure,
Wrapped in layers of memories,
My heart beating
In time with the falling snow.
I pass by faces
Etched in frost,
The flickering streetlights casting
Long shadows
Of forgotten dreams.
They speak in hushed tones,
Their voices carried
Away by the wind.
Phantoms of longing,
They haunt the streets,
Unseen but felt
In every icy gust.
The cold daydream
Carries me further,
To a place
Where time stands still,
Where the world becomes
A blur of white,
And all that remains
Is the echo of winter.
I surrender
To its numbing embrace,
Allowing it to freeze
My worries,
To silence my racing thoughts.
But even as I let go,
I know
That this cold daydream
Is fleeting,
That soon the sun will rise,
Melting away the illusion.
I clutch onto
The fading chill,
Knowing that it will slip
Through my fingers,
Fade into nothingness,
Leaving only fragments behind.
And so,
I surrender to the warmth,
Emerging from the depths
Of my cold daydream,
Returning to a world
Of colors and sounds.
But a part of me
Forever lingers there,
In the icy recesses
Of my mind,
Where a cold daydream
Still dances,
Whispering secrets
Of a frozen reality.
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Metre | 101 101 11011010 01 01011101 01110 11110 10010 1001 010111 1101 00101 10100101 101010 0010 101101 10111 111 0110 01001 0111 1101 101 0111 1011 11 11001 00110 10101100 1110 0110101 11110 101 0100110 11 10101 11011 11010 01101 10110 1101 0111 0100101 011 10110 101 1111 10101 0111 01101 1010110 1010 111001 010111 110 1101101 1101111 11 1111 110 110111 10010010 1110 0101 101111 1110 101100 10101001 01 1010101 010101 1111 010101 11001 10111 010101 0010100 111 1011 110 10010 101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,730 |
Words | 371 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 10, 11, 12, 13, 12, 14 |
Lines Amount | 82 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 192 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
About this poem
This poem explores the transient nature of moments and the way they can escape through the cracks of our consciousness.
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