Analysis of A Sleeper's Dream



Hold me down
With these chains if you must.
I have fallen into a lucid slumber.
A horrid scene masked behind simplicity.
A lifelong battle within myself.
I dare not close these bloodshot eyes,
For I have seen things not meant to be shown.
Torn asunder by scattered memories.
Hold me down.
Drown me in this freezing water.
Keep me awake; keep me sane.
A sleeper's dream in a poet's cave.
Writing pages upon pages;
Ink etched into words none dare to even whisper.
Yet it won't make any sense,
To those who fall into the realm of the restless.
Hold me down.
Hold me tighter.
I cannot bear these screams for much longer.
Awoken by the craving for cyanide.
Take one pill and it'll last for eternity.
An eternal slumber; a distortion of reality.
A sleeper's dream of nightmares never-ending.
Self-sabotaged peaceful fantasies.
Talk to me in my sleep with positivity not known to many.
Hold me down
And let me drift into this slumber
Without this lucid trickery.


Scheme AbcdefghAcijkclmAccnddohdAcd
Poetic Form
Metre 111 111111 11100101010 01011010100 01110011 1111111 1111111111 1010110100 111 11011010 1101111 01100101 10100110 110111111010 1111101 111101011010 111 1110 1101111110 11010110 111010110100 1010100010110 011111010 11010100 1110111111110 111 011101110 01110100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 955
Words 194
Sentences 22
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 28
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 752
Words per stanza (avg) 170

About this poem

A poem about someone who struggles with lucid nightmares that don't ever seem to go away.

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Written on February 01, 2023

Submitted by Arx7Echo on February 01, 2023

Modified on April 04, 2023

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