Analysis of I Dont Sleep



I don't sleep at night,
Because you haunt my dreams.
Waking up to find you're not here,
Is much harder then it seems.
I'd rather stay awake at night,
Because one thing I know is true,
That without these dreams I dream of us,
I'd never get to be with you.
So I don't close my eyes at night,
And I don't go to sleep,
Because I know that if I do,
I'd be admitting my defeat.
I dont try to be living,
Where I can't face my dreams,
Where every minute gets harder,
So much harder then it seems.
I could stay awake at night,
I could go on and daydream,
Because the moments that I close my eyes,
You'll dissappear out of sight,
So I dont, I dont.go to sleep at night.


Scheme ABCBADEDAFDGHBIBAJKAA
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 011111 10111111 1110111 11010111 01111111 101111111 11011111 11111111 011111 01111111 11010101 1111110 111111 110010110 1110111 1110111 111101 0101011111 11111 111111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 639
Words 135
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 21
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 494
Words per stanza (avg) 134

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Haunting love of dreams

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Written on July 18, 2021

Submitted by kayla_j on September 06, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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