Analysis of WHISPERS OF FANTASY, ECHOES OF REALITY



How did I survive?
Life always offered me two doors,
One is the roughed up door to my reality,
And another golden gate to the fantasy world.

That is how I survived,
I always chose the golden gate,
My fantasies were wild and felt so real,
My soul could fly high, run wild in the fantasy world.

It was like an escape room,
But instead of scary it's beautiful possibilities,
Who would want to escape limitless possibilities,
So I spent so much time there I barely remember my real life.

I could build any life I wanted,
From the greatest love stories borrowed from telenovelas,
To the greatest dreams of my life coming true,
There was no limit, my whole being went wild.

I was free in my fantasy world,
The kind of freedom I craved for my real world,
I would sneak back to the roughed up door once in a while,
Just to feel and cry my soul out and remind myself what never to choose.

Even when the real world got better,
It never could match my fantasy world,
But with my little freedom, I made the right choices,
To build all the castles from fantasy to my real world.

So it may not all match up,
But I'm in a reality I don't want to run from,
So now I actually choose my roughed up door not the golden gate,
I can honestly say now, I'm living in the real world.


Scheme XAXB XCXB XDDX XAXX BBXX XBXB XXCB
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 1110111 1101111110 0010101101001 111101 1110101 1100010111 1111111001001 1111011 10111011000100 1111011000100 1111111110010111 111101110 1010110111 10101111101 11110111011 111011001 01110111111 1111101111001 11101111001111011 101011110 1101111001 1111010110110 11101011001111 1111111 110010111111 1111001111110101 11100111100011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,266
Words 278
Sentences 8
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 140
Words per stanza (avg) 35

About this poem

From escaping from my trauma by running into the fantasy world, to creating a reality I don't want to run from.

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Submitted by Liza.Njeri1 on February 01, 2024

Modified by Liza.Njeri1 on February 01, 2024

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