Analysis of Drift
It all started on a rainy day
When no interests i had outside
For to stay in bed with my book
On such days was my wont
There I lay, by my book enthralled
'Till a distant call my world upturned
A call from a friend upon me to help
A distressed cry I had to heed
Soon in the rain I was running
To the path from whence the call was coming
'Till i tripped, or rather was tripped;
If only I knew someone was stalking
Dark and cold the weather had grown
Like a man gloomy and sad and old
And in this gloom I beheld the enemy
Not a single one, for they were many
"Let me go, for a friend I must heed!"
"Come along and let him bleed!"
"Along to where?", I would have asked,
If my lips they hadn't masked.
Up to a cliff I was lead,
Through which means I could not tell
But with speed myself I freed
Wanting not to hear my fate
In a strange forest I found myself
With hissing hyenas and laughing snakes
A lion I saw, but it was full
A surprising sight, when all was cool
On I walked, afraid of death
As innocent rabbits I beheld with dread
The sun was cold, and the wind was warm
And I was surprised that I wasn't surprised
All was calm, but wasn't quiet
For the sound of nature
Was somewhat music
In a forest as this, with no lyrics
On I walked
This time unstalked
For my foe, I knew
Was far from view
A dreary hermit
I would have met
If from his cave
I hadn't kept
To a flowing river I soon came near,
Waters so neat and crystal clear
I wasn't thirsty, else would have drank
So I lay to rest beside the river bank
Along the river a boat soon came
It's rower old but happy and gracious
"Come along!", He beckoned to me
"And let's ride on these waters so spacious."
So on I climbed, happy as a lark
And away he rowed, whistling along
While I wished he would never park
Even as the weather again grew dark
Soon to a shore we alighted
While his carriage he left afloat
And walking a little way,
To a desert we came
"There!", pointed the excited rower
At a bed of newly sprouting seedlings
"There I plant my apples,
And watch them grow into amazing maize."
Shaking my head, I walked away
For I had seen and heard enough
And now just wanted a place of rest
And from all this madness to escape
A broom tree I soon found
And under its shadow reclined
Bed or mat or pillow I hadn't
But the sand was cool enough
There in the desert, I shut my eyes
But immediately, they opened back
And I was back In my own room
For I awoke as soon as I slept.
Scheme | AXXX XAXB CCXC XXDD BBEEFXBX XXXX XFXX GHXX XAII GXXJ KKLL MNDN OXOO AXAM HXXX APXX XXXP XXXJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010101 11101111 11101111 111111 11111101 10101111 0110101111 00111111 10011110 1011101110 11111011 110111110 10101011 101100101 0011110100 1010111010 111101111 1010111 01111111 1111101 1101111 1111111 111111 1011111 00110111 1100100101 010111111 001011111 1110111 1100101111 011100111 01101111001 11111010 101110 11110 0010111110 111 111 11111 1111 01010 1111 1111 1101 1010101111 10110101 110101111 11111010101 010100111 1101110010 10111011 0111110110 111110101 001111001 11111101 1010100111 110111 11101101 0100101 101011 110001010 1011101010 111110 0111010101 10111101 11110101 011100111 011110101 011111 0101101 111110110 1011101 100101111 1010001101 01110111 110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,445 |
Words | 528 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 18 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 8, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 76 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
About this poem
It's a narrative poem in which the writer drifts into a dream and begins to dream strange things, but later wakes unexpectedly.
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Written on September 22, 2022
Submitted by loticalloty on September 22, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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