Analysis of Halloween Dream



Unbridled by custom, dreams permit our minds
to prepare a canvas to paint all it finds.
Bump and grind of color splash on jagged space.
Counter evolution to barbaric trace.
Lunging figures tackle every moving thing.
Grotesquely carved gargoyles gyring on a string.
Roiling on the surface are unnerving stares.
Circled around by fire found in demon lairs.
Tight as a miser's fist stiffened in the night:
strident trepidation shivering in fright.
Cocktails of piety for popeyed penitents.
Hardened lines of dogma masked by resplendence.
Crouching in the shadows, like crumpled fenders,
ghoulish beings forage as death surrenders.
Twisting animation, sensual and nice,
turbulently fractures like some broken ice.
Tangled, dangling cobwebs are the spider's snare.
All beseeching virgins catch prey unaware.
Explosive oddities jolt all the senses:
irreducibly strange with no defenses.


Scheme AABBCCDAEEAAFFGGHHII
Poetic Form
Metre 010110101101 10101011111 1011101111 1001010101 101010100101 010111101 10101010101 100111010101 1101110001 1001010001 11100111 101110111 1000111010 10101011010 1001010001 11011101 1010011011 1010101101 01010011010 1111010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 861
Words 133
Sentences 15
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 723
Words per stanza (avg) 133
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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