Analysis of Beauty sleep
pour me a shot of jack
to numb my delusional fingers
from burning pages of lost time.
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tear a piece of my mind
seat it by the table sun,
gaze at the pine-trees
I borrow patience from the feeble
waiting for you.
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you, getting your beauty sleep,
on the bed of my illusions,
with candy alarm clocks,
singing "you're a small wonder baby,"
the steady rhythm of your breathing
breaking into my world, stories of being tired,
running with the wild pack of crazy secrets,
hijacking my nighttime killer kiss.
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in the palm of your curled fingers
I'm waiting for you to wake up
to tell what wonders you saw,
little do you know,
you're a small wonder by yourself, my love
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I miss you, like the stalled time
that's trying to move on,
still waiting for you to wake up
from your beauty sleep
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for Maria
2003
Scheme | ABC DEFGH IJKLMNOP BQRST CUQI VW |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111 111010010 11010111 1 101111 1110101 11011 11101010 1011 1 1101101 10111010 110011 101011010 010101110 1001111011010 10101111010 1011101 1 00111110 11011111 1111011 10111 1011010111 1 1111011 110111 11011111 11101 1 1010 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 813 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 32 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 616 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 153 |
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Written on March 15, 2003
Submitted by azdi404 on March 25, 2023
Modified on April 26, 2023
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