Analysis of Can't Sleep?
When the many troubles of the world have plagued your weary head,
You may find you cannot sleep when at last you go to bed.
Instead, the problems seem to swell, as your mind reviews them still.
And instead of finding full release, thoughts repeat against your will.
There is nothing you can do to save a world in disarray,
Yet, worry persists and then includes regrets from yesterday.
What's done is done and can't be changed, so pick up a book and read.
Escape the world and forget your past for the mental reset you need.
For stories can be the soothing balm you need for a troubled mind,
A diversion with transmuting power to escape your daily grind.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010101111101 11111011111111 010101111110111 0011101011010111 11101111101001 11001010101110 111101111110101 01010011110100111 1101101011110101 001011101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 664 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 52 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
About this poem
I finished this poem today. It's about the struggle I have that I believe I share with many. That of the brain not shutting down when we would like to sleep. And of course the solution for a book-loving person like me is to immerse myself in someone else's story. I can't imagine going to sleep without reading first.
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Written on November 05, 2022
Submitted by janet_1 on November 05, 2022
Modified on March 16, 2023
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