Analysis of I Had, I Dreamt, I Made
I had hands roughened with passage of time,
calcium nail coat with irregular indentation,
supple skin with pores of youthful endeavor,
fresh dark lines on palm, ruddy in complexion.
{1}
i dreamt of luxury cars with Dunlop seat,
spacious rooms with filtering Sunlight,
appetizing food served in silver,
arrays of crystal adorning ceramic polished wall,
pure ivory cutglass made from elephant tusk,
Persian satin cloth draping my bare flesh,
ice cold water for euphoric summer swim.
{2}
i sliced tree bark with butcher knife,
collected grey stone sprinkled with ash,
blended sticky clay with pitchers of water,
rolled spiked wire to form a fence,
crushed marble chips, sparkling granite, to flat tiles,
dug deep wells for extracting pure ground water,
clipped cable wires for transmitting current,
set the hands of gold watch at my favorite nine,
snatched all finance from blood sucking population,
built a two story house with red baked brick.
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Scheme | XABAC XXBXXXXC XXBXXBXXAXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111011 1001110100010 10111110010 11111100010 1 1111001111 10111001 10011010 01110010010101 11001111001 1010110111 11101010101 1 11111101 010111011 10101110110 11101101 11011010111 11110101110 11010101010 101111111001 11011110010 1011011111 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 941 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 8, 11 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 255 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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