Analysis of To die from dreaming.

Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)



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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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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Heather Lydia Thornhill

Moods and mindsets poetry. Published. Book in progress: Don't talk rot. more…

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