Analysis of poem #22
David Plantinga 1972 (Sherbrooke)
This sleep has sunk to catacombs
Where dreams are dreaming of themselves,
And where they slump to deeper shelves
A dim and voiceless banshee roams.
Interlopers jostle memory,
And pressing on his signet ring,
Take on the seal of realer things.
Truth’s rejected for hyperbole.
Delusions stack in strata, drowned,
Lives never lived, in parallel,
That puzzle sleepers who can’t tell
Where waking lies, so lies confound.
Scheme | ABBACDECFGGF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110 11110101 01111101 01010011 10010100 01011101 1101111 10101010 01010101 1101010 11010111 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 421 |
Words | 67 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 335 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 67 |
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