Analysis of I Still Dare To Dream.



I Still Dare To Dream

Do you remember the way it used to be?
My mind drifts back in time to thoughts of you and me.
With a sense of sadness and a touch of a smile,
I thought we had it all there for a little while.
What remains is a broken shell of all that went before,
Quiet spirit forgotten, heart asunder, bleeding and torn.
Now, tis alone that I walk, my emptiness forlorn.
I cannot forget the love that we once shared.
When you went away, I wasn't prepared.
What was left behind, you cannot know,
Darkness surrounds, complete, onward is slow.
Time to lie down now, where time does not exist,
Where thoughts of you are sweet; your arms I can't resist.
It's here your always there, so I close my eyes to see,
It's there, we're always here, because I still dare to dream.


Scheme A BBCCXDDEEFFGGBA
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 11010011111 111101111101 101110001101 111111110101 10110101111101 101001010101001 1101111110001 11001011111 1110111001 111011101 1001011011 11111111101 111111111101 111111111111 111110111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 758
Words 149
Sentences 10
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 15
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 296
Words per stanza (avg) 75
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Written on July 03, 2001

Submitted by Dreamer81 on November 01, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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