Analysis of Insomnia Personified
Blue skies to dark nights
A lifelong routine
Day’s expanse of blue is a welcome sight
But when the night comes
And the dark cascades around me
It swallows the light in its ravenous, unforgiving mouth
Then the villain awakens
The big, bad, indomitable foe
The burglar of sleep
And a harbinger of love for the sunrise
A love born from a way to escape the darkness
To escape drifting off
Into a black whirlpool of recurring nightmares
Dark nights to blue skies
The dawn is my friend
It welcomes the restless and soothes night’s cold sting
The sting that materialized out of hatred for the ceiling
Always there
A wide square above
The only companion of wild midnight eyes
Eyes that play the victim of a trivial crime
The crime of loathing the sun's slow ascent
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Metre | 11111 01101 1011110101 11011 00101011 110010110000101 1010010 011010001 01011 0010011101 011101101010 101101 0101110101 11111 01111 11001001111 011010011101010 11 01101 0100101111 111010101001 0111001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 766 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 9 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 307 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
About this poem
This poem is about the recurring experience of sleepless nights. It embodies the thirst for sleep and distrust for night.
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