Analysis of Imogene



Imogene imagined.
When she slept
she dreamed.
Such awful dreams.
They shook her awake
and reality was
a cold and silent floor.
So she imagined some more.
Until the floor was warm
with the tread of
someone there.
She grew cobwebs
in her hair
imagining.


Scheme ABCDEFGGHIJKJL
Poetic Form
Metre 10010 111 11 1101 11001 0101 010101 1101011 010111 1011 11 111 001 0100
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 238
Words 45
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 200
Words per stanza (avg) 45
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Submitted by jborenin on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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