Analysis of Dreaming



How fleeting is our nightly dream; awake it can't be found.
Barely alert it will escape into some underground.
Group exercise for brain neurons: dream by products occur.
Attempts to give significance, the mind meanings infer.
Native Americans would catch dreams in wooden net hoops.
Good spirit versions were preserved, others fell through the loops.
Symbolically dreams can detail hidden desire or fear.
As the sentinel sinks in sleep visions freely appear.
Unruly thoughts disguise themselves providing harmless vent.
Shady fantasies are fulfilled with principles absent.
Preposterous accomplishments rack up as bill of fare.
No social consequence to face, there is devil may care.
Dreams can act as a clearinghouse for unprocessed events.
They sort and store or empty out the copious contents.
Rapid eye movement beta waves are cycled in the brain.
Dreams can stabilize our passion and sanity maintain.


Scheme AABBCCDDEFGGHHII
Poetic Form
Metre 110110101011111 1001110101110 1101110111001 01110100011001 10010011101011 11010001101101 0100011011001011 10100101101001 01010101010101 10100101110010 01000100111111 11010011111011 111101010101 11011101010010 10110101110001 11101010010001
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 890
Words 141
Sentences 16
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 46
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 743
Words per stanza (avg) 141
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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