Analysis of Absent of Dreams
Absent of Dreams
My heart
now bleeds
for what I do not know
and what I cannot dream
For my thoughts
bear no fruit
within the night
for what I see in the day's sun
Amid the raindrops
from the Sycamore Tree
that gently fall in a breeze
from foliage of green
Where
the flowers rise in spring
amongst the songs of a nightingale
from the tree of sheen in heaven's ray
Now lost is the whispers
of rustling leaves
once touched by open air
absent of my dreams
| Scheme | A XXXX XXXX XXXX BXXX XXBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011 11 11 111111 011101 111 111 0101 11110011 0101 10101 1101001 11011 1 010101 010110100 101110101 111010 1101 111101 10111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 431 |
| Words | 89 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on July 05, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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