Analysis of A DREAM OF MADNESS
Dreams of madness fill your head
Tearing at the fibres of your brain,
Until you feel your senses reeling
Have you truly gone insane?
Demon creatures from another world
Pervade your every sleeping thought,
Green Men, Blue Men, Men of Iron
Zombies, Vampires, even Manticore.
In the depths of your latest dream
Lovecraftian abominations appear,
Cthulhu, Nytharlethotep and more
Vipers and Komodo Dragons rear.
In the fevered world of dreams
Horrors seek you out each night,
Terrified you attempt to run
Fearful of your dreaming plight.
Elephantine beings flying around
Just centimetres above your head,
Leviathans from some demon round
Fill your heart with icy dread.
Diamondbacks and rattlesnakes
Surrounding you soon after dark,
Swirling psychedelic visions
Keep you in terror, craven stark.
Drifters, Whistlers, Fire Owls too
Torment you at the witching hour,
Werewolfs baying at the moon
All hold you in their ghastly power.
Figments of your dark imagination
Cavorting nightly around your room,
Messengers, Icemen, Hypno also
Fill your mind with thoughts of doom.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
| Scheme | ABXB XXXC XCCC XDED FAFA XGXG XCXC EHXH XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1110111 10101111 011111010 1110101 101010101 011100101 11111110 1010101 00111101 1101 1101 100010101 0010111 1011111 1010111 1011101 01101001 11000111 111101 1111101 1010 01011101 1001010 11010101 10101011 11101010 110101 111011010 101110010 010100111 1001110 1111111 01 101010 100100010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 1,102 |
| Words | 177 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 35 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Dreams of madness fill your head Tearing at the fibres of your brain,
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Written on August 02, 2021
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on October 30, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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