Analysis of To die from dreaming.
To die a death in slumbers breath.
To be whisped away into unsheltered skies.
And left to devises new and bright.
To shine with the day and glisten with the night.
To be, still, even though not embodied.
Unseen and yet seen in blurry eyed corners wadded with sleep.
To be heard in a dream as the gleaming ocean washes dreams into heaps of sand.
To know one day you'll understand
why I left you in signs I leave behind.
To love without body is to love sweet mind.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011 111010111 011010101 11101010101 1111011010 010110101101011 11100110101010101111 1111101 1111011101 11011011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 462 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 362 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 89 |
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Written on February 26, 2022
Submitted by heathert.34240 on February 26, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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