Analysis of Daydreams



Do you ever wonder where daydreams go
They seem to vanish in the daylight glow
Perhaps to die in the conscious flow
Or, do they strive to somehow grow

Maybe they’re only sleeping on the wind
To reappear in a future nocturnal tale
Caught and twisted in some nightmarish gin
To frighten you beyond the pale.

But on a warm summer day
When all such thoughts are evanescent
With an airiness so light and gay
They’re often filled with lovely sentiment

This is something so serene
You marvel at its magic
You are moved to ecstasy
It’s seldom very tragic

There’s something about a daydream
That’s different from a dream
You can shape it to your scheme
You can alter its varied stream

But often in the dark
You are captive to the plight
Sometimes murky sometimes stark
A dream is always far from light

So you know where daydreams go
They escape into the dusky glow
They morph in subconscious flow
Where they survive and grow


Scheme AAAA XBXB CDCD XEXE FFFF GHGH AAAA
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 111010111 111100011 011100101 1111111 1011010101 10100100101 101001101 11010101 1101101 11111010 1111101 1101110100 1110101 1101110 1111100 1101010 1100101 1100101 1111111 11101101 110001 1110101 0110011 0111111 111111 10101011 1100101 110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 931
Words 174
Sentences 2
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 24

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Written on November 01, 2015

Submitted by aerrol24 on August 26, 2023

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allanbrunmier

Retired Air Force Contracting Officer and Division Chief and later a Finance Manager for Hughes Research Laboratories (Later known as HRL Laboratories in Malibu, California). Degree (Major English, Minor Philosophy). Masters in Business Administration. Former expert in Government Contracts and Government Accounting. Circumstances were that in my twenties I gave up ambition to write shortly after military service. Started writing again in my 70's when I wrote elegy for a friend Gary Schaffer who tragically died at the young age of 48. more…

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