Analysis of Perchance to Dream
I want to sleep,
but yet I can't.
It's not for lack
of trying.
It's because I know too well,
What dreams may come,
When I enter REM.
They aren't bogey dreams.
They are pleasant dreams.
Like ones my sweetest friend
Once wished to me,
When ever we would part.
And in these pleasant dreams
I'm with my friends again.
Then I awake...
And realize I miss them.
| Scheme | XXXX XXAB BXXX BXX A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 1111 1111 110 1011111 1111 11101 110101 11101 111101 1111 110111 001101 111101 1101 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 339 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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