Analysis of The Bridge of Dreams



I stand alone within my wandering mind,
And all outside can see the absence plain;
My thoughts provide no balm to ease my brain
For no respite my lost attention finds.
In everything and all that I attempt,
Despite the best intentions and desire,
I find attention flickers like a fire,
And life's distractions find me in contempt.
And when I enter into such a state,
There stands a great divide between the lands.
Upon one side the luscious trees appear
Within its garden green a peace awaits.
A bridge across the reverie's chasm spans
And opposite this green, the world I fear.

Though I would give my fortunes to commend
My thoughts across the span to walk in green,
Forget the barbarous things in life I've seen
And live where dreams can play without an end.
The barren world I always seek to flee,
To sing and paint the dreams of my mind's eye,
Still shouts and taunts obscenities to try
To claw and pull my mind so jealously.
So trapped I stand above the chasm there.
Intrusions on my solace drag me back
To where the world like whirling banshees scream.
But I am also pulled to forests fair.
And nothing pains me more to know I lack
The will to walk across the Bridge of Dreams.


Scheme XAAXBCCBXXDXXD EFFEGHHGIJXIJX
Poetic Form
Metre 11010111001 0111110101 1101111111 1110110101 010011101 01010100010 11010101010 0101011001 0111001101 1101010101 0111010101 0111010101 010101101 0100110111 1111110101 1101011101 01010010111 0111110111 010111111 1101011111 1101010011 1101111100 1111010101 0101110111 110111011 1111011101 0101111111 0111010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,183
Words 239
Sentences 11
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 14, 14
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 470
Words per stanza (avg) 110

About this poem

I have taken the form of a Petrachan Sonnet and modified the rhyming structure a little, but not much. It is a piece written in frustration as I found concentrating on creating artistic works increasingly difficult

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Written on January 15, 2023

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Jarrad Blackburn

Jarrad Blackburn is a musician, songwriter, teacher and fantasy cartographer. He likes to focus on philosophy and psychology when engaging in creative writing. His most notable work to day is the song Minstrel's Eternity. more…

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