Analysis of Dreams
As I search to engage
the gears of a notion
I slip and revert
as if some silly, wild potion
Where colors are numbers
and hands tell the scent
The explosions absorb me
contorted and bent
The abstract diversions
that plague the inner me
Are pressures of sweat
and huge flying trees
| Scheme | XA XA XB CB XC XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101 011010 11001 11110110 110110 01101 0010011 01001 001010 110101 11011 01101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 279 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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