Analysis of Alone in a Nightmare
I sober at every laughter
this burden i cover
tingling under.
An elegy composed
dark, covert, vague and shaded
I alone rancid myself.
I seek every verse
of an underlying wish
to live without any waste.
Severed from me, my happiness
A child's slumber would I gladly wished
but a nightmare to me
had been left.
| Scheme | AAA XXX XXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110110010 110110 10010 110001 1101010 101101 111001 110101 1101101 10111100 011011101 10111 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 296 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on March 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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