Analysis of DREAMS (Poem #261)
Dreams are memories we share with the night.
Some can bring comfort and others fright.
Things we have seen while paying little attention
Are now in our minds, hanging in suspension.
Can we put thoughts together and out of them make sense?
Or is there a wall between or even a fence?
A wall will leave blanks when we wonder why?
Or looking through a fence, some senses reply.
With feelings we never knew that we had
From deep within our soul, our dreams are clad.
Sometimes our imagination runs amok,
And into a scary scene we become stuck.
The moon has risen and now comes the sun
When we awake and our dreams are all done.
© Copyright 8/1/1999 by Jean E. Gorney
| Scheme | AA BB CC DD EE FF BB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110011101 111100101 111111010010 110101100010 1111010011111 111010111001 0111111101 11010111001 1101101111 110110110111 01100010101 00101011011 0111001101 11010101111 1011110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 649 |
| Words | 124 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on March 01, 2017
Modified on March 05, 2023
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