Analysis of Imagine



My eyelids flickered
and, gritting teeth
I created pictures
in disbelief
    opened windows
with dazzling colours
stunning rainbows
I soon discovered
    I felt mother's face
(which I knew so well)
looked out of place
(though I daren't tell)
    a delicate rose
proved such a joy
I'd remembered smelling
when a boy
    that precarious
old squeaky gate
which in a wind
I grew to hate
    the sea roared
blues and greens
every colour inbetween
in this pipedream
    so much fantasy
though sweet as wine
I'll never see
you see, I'm blind


Scheme ABCDECEAFGFGEHIHJKLKMNOPQOQL
Poetic Form
Metre 1110 0101 101010 001 1010 11001 101 11010 11101 11111 1111 111011 01001 1101 101010 101 10100 1101 1001 1111 011 101 10011 011 11100 1111 1101 1111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 528
Words 93
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 28
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 410
Words per stanza (avg) 90
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Submitted on January 25, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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