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.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | XXXX XXAB BXXX BXX A |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 339 |
Words | 68 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 3, 1 |
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