Analysis of 'Perchance To Dream'
Pulling the curtains
down on today
Shutting the windows
doors locked from the street
Putting the cat out
trouble abeyant
My house becomes quiet
—the past is asleep
(Dreamsleep: Ocotber, 2023)
| Scheme | XAXXXAXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10010 1101 10010 11101 10011 101 110110 01101 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 195 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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