Analysis of A labyrinth of a dream



A labyrinth of a dream

Across the bridge of time we roam the labyrinth
of a dream. Narrow streets of twisted steel
covered in ash and shadows.
In stillness

Everything retreats into silence of pain, amid a
facade of broken pillars left wayside to an open
grave,  

pillar's carved in stone, desolate crumbled
at the rivers edge. Wilted shadows over
tombs of unburied lay in a nocturnal voice of
faded roses.  

Twisted in steel the poppies speak for wounded souls  
as soft hands of angles touch
their silent faces.

between the corridors of space
and time a single stroke of a bell, an
echo fades into the hearts it touches.  

Into depths of sleeping flames and blood
lay naked in rubble by rivers bed, towers fallen
on sound of doves wings the hand of death closes
as hero's sleep and mothers weep. clocks stand
still Behind a rusted cross where flowers grew


Scheme X XXXX XAX XXXB XXC XXC XABXX
Poetic Form
Metre 010101 01011111010 1011011101 100101 010 1001011011010 0111010111110 1 110110010 1010110110 11110001011 1010 100101011101 1111101 11010 01010011 0101011011 1010101110 011110101 11001011011010 11111011110 1101010111 10101011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 862
Words 164
Sentences 8
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3, 5
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 98
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted by sunrasmoondog on June 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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