Analysis of A Dreamless Sleep



Three sex dreams in a row, and I wake up lonely and alone. I don't need a whore that just wants to fuck. I want more, a woman to love, that loves me. And that love cradles us, like the wind, and rocks us into a dreamless sleep beneath an ebony sky.


Scheme A
Poetic Form
Metre 111001011110001111011111111101011111011101101011010110111001
Characters 248
Words 52
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 1
Lines Amount 1
Letters per line (avg) 187
Words per line (avg) 52
Letters per stanza (avg) 187
Words per stanza (avg) 52
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Submitted by casepoet on November 04, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Thomas W. Case

Born in Oxnard California, currently living in Iowa. Published two books of poetry and hundreds of individual poems in anthologies all over the world. more…

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