Analysis of poem #22



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
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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Submitted by DavidPlantinga on August 16, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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