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
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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