Analysis of Insomnia
By: Curtis A. Carroll, 12/17/2015
Lying in bed, wide awake,
Counting stars instead of sheep.
Watching the shapes and forms clouds make;
While trying to get a good night’s sleep.
Dark clouds, white clouds, drifting by
As if commanded by the distant thunder
Flashes of light, then a patch of blue sky
Is it a storm or a celestial wonder?
A gust of the wind, a shower of rain,
Kissing the parched - Earth again, and again.
Loud thunder shaking my balcony door
Silence for a moment, then more and more.
Twisting and turning, I lay in bed
Sleep not coming, not even a wink
Staring at the sky, scratching my head
Being entertained by a cosmic link.
At last the dawn breaks
I get up to make my bed
“Don’t worry about sleep, for Heaven’s sake!”
“You will have lots of time for that when you’re dead!”
Note: Sleepless nights.
Scheme | X ABAB CDCD XXEE FGFG XFAF X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010 1001101 1010111 10010111 110110111 1111101 11010101010 1011101111 11011001010 0110101011 1001101001 1101011001 1010101101 100101101 111011001 101011011 100110101 11011 1111111 1100111101 11111111111 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 811 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on January 16, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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