Analysis of Faded Dreams



Lost and wandering the wilderness of my mind.
Seeking things that were once important.
All I see is clutter and disarray.
Were they real, the memories I search for?
Some were so pleasant.
A walk along the beach at sunset,
sky ablaze, wind rushing, waves crashing.
Building things, helping others, prayer.
I guess the fire kind of died
or maybe I have lived out all my dreams.
Is that possible, to be out of dreams?
...done, finished, nothing left.
to become just some used up faded dream.
Living a life in the past, struggling
for survival, slowly dying inside.
Are there dreams still worth living for?
Snow capped mountains, hidden valleys,
building new lives, being the difference.
Yes! Dreams worth fighting for!
Faded dreams forgotten, replaced by the new.


Scheme ABCDBEFGHIIJKFHDLMDN
Poetic Form Etheree  (20%)
Metre 101000100111 101101010 111110001 0110100111 10110 01010111 101110110 10110101 11010111 1101111111 1110011111 110101 1011111101 1001001100 1010101001 11111101 11101010 1011100100 111101 1010101101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 741
Words 129
Sentences 18
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 597
Words per stanza (avg) 129
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Submitted on January 13, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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