Analysis of Fool's Dreams

Carol Davidson 1954 (Virginia)



I believed your lies,
the fire burning in your eyes,
hot pools of fool's dreams.


Scheme AAB
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 10111 01010011 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 80
Words 17
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 62
Words per stanza (avg) 15

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I think this Senryu poem is self explanatory.

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Written on 2005

Submitted by CarolDavidson on April 24, 2023

Modified on April 27, 2023

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Carol Davidson

Carol Davidson is a retired southern Christian woman, now living in the mountains of Northeast Alabama. Carol's life experience includes infertility, disappointment, marriage to an addict and adulterer, abuse and divorce, blessing and loss, desperation and salvation. A woman alone in the world except for three sisters, their children and grandchildren, Carol embraces life with hope in Christ Jesus, as she approaches 70. She expresses herself in poetry, prose, paint and other various artistic forms. Primarily self taught, except for the sewing skill that she gained as a young girl from her mother, Carol worked in architectural and mechanical design for 40 years. She inherited the 'mechanical gene' from her mother who installed electrical systems in military airplanes in WWII, and showed her four daughters that there was nothing they couldn't do. Still, Carol has learned through life events, that all you can do is all you can do, and the rest is in God's hands. more…

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