Analysis of See You Later –in My Dreams
An exclamation from my brainstem
after I have slipped into slumber,
Calls my precepts of perception to:
Those sleep notions— those occasions of reassurance
and awakened, elapsed experiences
That seem to have my number
I’m back in those halls of dedicated essence
that therein haunt at a former contentedness
and spawn a renewed existence
Memory …
you’re etched on my cortex in a different way – a lasting cast
as misplaced pride jabs at my resolve
I reflect, exalting faded corners of history freshly before my eyes
Whosoever believes the austere proclamation, “those good times must be left behind –those faces shan’t evermore be looked upon,”
does foolishly disregard my claim,
(though I do accept my alienation from stations full of familiar acceptance –that have long since concluded)
that, here it all is before me anew – just as it was then
Dreamt back into life for revisitation – what bliss!
And here you all are – peremptory persons and places of my past
whence I’d left you last – you’ve been missed!
I know you – I knew you
I know you recurrent
Never struggling in vain
to recall your names or bask in novel nostalgence,
thanks to these entranced, unfaltering flicks: if with me once,
then forever with me – in a sense
To happen in unconsciousness at the subconscious’ whim
I meet you all again,
if only I may dream
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010111 101110110 11110101 111010101010 00100101000 1111110 110111100010 101110101 01001010 100 1111100010010101 101111101 10101010101100100111 01001001010111111011101101101 11000111 1110110010110110100101111010 111110110111111 110111111 01111010010010111 11111111 111111 111010 1010001 1111110101 11101111111 101011001 1100100100101 111101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,372 |
Words | 247 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 4, 7, 9 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 265 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
About this poem
“Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.” ~Bruce Coville
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