Analysis of Night Dreams 2
Christina Canter 1987
Slipping into spilled ink
My eyelids rain smooth black
Oceans of shapes
Running to find its rest.
Humming air
Sing to my lungs
Your coolest lullaby
As my tummy rises
I fall into the night.
| Scheme | XXXX XXXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100111 11111 1011 101111 101 1111 11010 111010 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 190 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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