Analysis of Dream
Dream
By Art Hyde
Blood, blue eyes, blonde hair, bruises,
party dresses, and a broken promise.
Sharp words, an apology,
and back to life as before.
A smile, foggy songs,
and the promise of forgiveness and changed ways.
Rumors from friends, dark days, lies,
hard work will be my moniker.
The voice of her old lover whispers her name to my troubled mind, as the wind blows against my window for a thousand sleepless nights.
For whom is the trespass ascribed;
I have waited patiently to know?
Blonde hair, soft lips, smooth skin,
unlike my gray mane and wrinkled flesh.
I need to know where you are,
somewhere close or far away.
Your fragrance fills my head with melancholy memories,
too much a part of today to be owned by yesterday.
Tell me, whom do these days belong,
and are they ours or you and another?
Again, the night approaches and my mind declares, “Sleep old man, sleep, sleep until tomorrow.”
Tomorrow’s dream may reveal love absolved,
or a revelation of her demise. Dream, hope and believe.
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Scheme | XX XX AX XX XB X XC XX BX XA XB C XX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys |
Metre | 1 111 1111110 1010001010 1110100 0111101 01101 00101010011 1011111 11111100 01101101001111011011011101010101 1110101 111010011 111111 011110101 1111111 111101 1101111100100 1101101111110 11111101 01110110010 010101001101111110101 011101101 10010100111001 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,026 |
Words | 212 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 3 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
This poem is about two lovers who determine their relationship is filled with physical and emotional abuse, arguments. They go their separate ways. As male lover comes to the end of his life he wonders if it was him or her that brought their relationship to an end. He wonders if he was the abuser or her. He dreams each night that their difference are resolved and they come together once again to love and do much better the second time.
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