Analysis of The Child and The Dream
Meng Wing Siong 1960 (Philippines)
Into the valley of woods i came
looking for a seed i sowed when i was a child.
But the greens led to emptiness..
The little boy understood not, yet gladly smiled;
Oh i ran around in a garden full of butterflies,
hoping for the grass to never grow.
But the weeds laughed..
The child was mystified yet the spirit kept the glow;
Oh i swam the river and into the blues,
wishing for time to stay as i sat by the sea under to play.
But the winds came..
The child awoke in tears, but then sadness lingered far away;
Oh i painted the skies into rainbows,
dreaming of night to never wake.
But child becomes man, and moon embraces sun..
His vision frozen, like rocks in the sand;
So deep into the forest i searched again
to find the path whence i traversed once.
The seed had died, but a tree was born, so i was told..
The child and the dream,
so entwined in a mystery perhaps no man can unfold.
Scheme | ABXB XCXC XDAD XXXX XXEXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101111 101011111101 10111100 01010111101 1110100101110 101011101 1011 011101010101 11101000101 1011111111011011 1011 010101111010101 111001011 10111101 11011010101 1101011001 11010101101 110111101 0111101111111 01001 101001000111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 889 |
Words | 196 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
About this poem
A child loves to play. Dreamland is his playground. His free spirit is without inhibitions and always ready to explore what life can offer. His perspective is not clouded with all sorts of life`s adversities, struggles, anxieties, restrictions, fears and challenges as what face a man as he grows older. Truth is the man i am sometimes could hardly understand the child in me. Oh..how i really wish i were a child again :)
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Written on October 08, 2020
Submitted by meng888ws on November 08, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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