Analysis of Blue Dots
My bed
although it's a cot
Because of the blankets and pillows
when I am laying there
Uncomfortable it is not
When I was little
I liked to stay awake
Under the sheets with a flashlight
Reading until my parents took it away.
Now, I must wear glasses
To make up for those years that I would read books by moonlight.
Today, I slept in
Until 5 pm.
When I woke up, I felt guilty about this.
Now, here it is 9am.
And I didn't sleep last night,
At night
Again.
For some, beds are for sleeping.
For others, beds they are needing.
For me, now, my bed is needing my head on the pillows
But I sit on the blankets instead.
Smoking trying to empty my mind of some thoughts about something's my parents had said.
If it had been better at home way back then,
Would I still be the same way?
Smoking the nights up until there was no night left,
Giving up and sleeping all day?
I'm so tired of crazy
Of lazyness
Of chasing blue dots up and down the town streets.
I'm so tired of crazy
Of laziness
Of smoking blue dots until I'm not me.
I'm not sure what this is
Maybe it's imprisonment
But I've been to prison
And in prison I wasn't free to chase anything on any street at all.
I think I remember myself on the very edge of a shelf
And then I jumped.........
Well, then, I must still be falling.
Scheme | abcxb xxdexd xxxxddf ggcaafexeHcxHxhxxxxxxg |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 11 1101 011010010 111101 01000111 11110 111101 1001101 10011101101 111110 1111111111111 01110 0111 11111110011 11111 0110111 11 01 1111110 11011110 11111110111010 111101001 101011011111011011011 11111011111 1111011 100110111111 10101011 1110110 11 11011101011 1110110 1100 1101101111 111111 1010100 111110 001011011110110111 111010110101101 0111 11111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,281 |
Words | 275 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 7, 22 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 244 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Written on September 24, 2022
Submitted by Cactusprick13 on August 24, 2022
Modified on March 30, 2023
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