Analysis of Sweet Dreams



Only fools dream of that which they may never posses.
Only fools ignore the hurt, the pain, the truth.
I loved all that you were helplessly and completely.
Your very presence enveloped me.
But it wasn'y my fault--it was yours.
So easily you won me over, just by being you.
You knocked me down, stood me up, ignored me and said hello.
You sentenced me to the death I died a thousand times.
But it wasn't your fault--it was mine.
So easily I fell for you, being so naive and ignorant.
I never gave up on you.
I was a fool.
Only fools dream of the which they may never possess.
I dreamed of you.
It was the sweetest of all my dreams.


Scheme ABCCDEFGHIEJKEL
Poetic Form Tetractys  (27%)
Metre 1011111111010 10101010101 1111101000010 110100101 11111111 11001111011101 11111110110101 1101101110101 111011111 1100111110110100 1101111 1101 1011101111001 1111 110101111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 616
Words 123
Sentences 15
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 481
Words per stanza (avg) 123
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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