Analysis of The Dream



I want to live in another place.
To leave this world without a trace

The ones who knew me to all disappear
To start all over with the mirrors clear

I want to home on the green grass hill
Where  neither sides can reach or fill

I want to love from the very start
Not to keep loving in the lovers depart

Intuitively I know it is all a dream
And life may never go upstream

But one can wonder and hope for it all
As long as you know what’s up will fall

And just perhaps it never reaches that height
The lights won’t come on and all days will be night


Scheme AA BB CC DD EE FF GG
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 111100101 11110101 011111101 1111010101 111110111 11011111 111110101 11110001001 010001111101 01110111 1111001111 111110111 01011101011 01111011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 557
Words 122
Sentences 2
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 61
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Written on July 02, 2003

Submitted by jallenperry on March 02, 2023

Modified on April 09, 2023

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