Analysis of DREAMS ANSWER QUESTIONS
Dreams are answers to questions
That no-one even dares ask
Questions best left unanswered
Of terrors that lurk in the dark.
Dreaming we discover the truth
Of foulness best left concealed,
To horrors abounding in darkness
That awakened are best not revealed.
In dreams, dark secrets come forward
After hiding from the daylight,
Secrets that only bring madness
Unless they're kept hidden in night.
Horrid things lurk out of sight
To reveal themselves only in dreams,
Using an unwanted candour
That nothing is quite as it seems.
Gross visions torment our nights
Revealing great insights in sleep,
Insights abhorrent to sanity
Disgusting things which slowly creep.
Shadowy creatures are lurking
In the darkness when we're awake,
Hidden from the day in our dreams
Morning tells us they're fake.
Horrors lurk beyond vision
Revealed only to us when asleep,
Atrocities mostly unsighted
As out of the darkness they peep.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | XXAX XBCB ADCD DEXE XFXF XGEG XFAF XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110110 1111011 101110 11011001 10101001 1101101 110010010 101011101 01110110 1010101 10110110 01111001 1011111 101011001 1010101 11011111 1101101 0101101 10101100 01011101 10010110 00101101 101010101 101111 1010110 011011101 0100101 11101011 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 955 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
Dreams are answers to questions That no-one even dares ask Questions best left unanswered Of terrors that lurk in the dark.
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Written on April 07, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on October 12, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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