Analysis of Flying Dreams
and when i dream, i fly...
i kick into the air
forget all my cares
and fly...
soaring along
in a brilliant blue sky
no fences or stop lights
just the miles rushing by
a child of the air
doing loops and cartwheels
i can't put into words
the joy that i feel
higher than heaven
where no angel roams
nobody has seen
the places i've flown
but i'm all by myself
flying alone
i have no destination
no place to call home
i look down and see
the clouds far below
stretch past the horizons
like god's own pillow
the green land beneath them
calls me to bed
i'm weary of flying
so i'll rest my head
upon the earth's shoulders,
curl up in her lap
and as i descend
i rouse from my nap
i wake feeling broken
i can no longer fly
but i have my family,
they slumber nearby
and a place to return to
a place that i call home
and though i love flying
there's one truth i know
my place is my family
and my dreams have shown
its better to walk with them
than to fly all alone
Scheme | ABXA XAXA BXXX CXXD XDCE FGXG HIJI XKXK CAFA XEJG FDHD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111 110101 01111 01 1001 001011 110111 101101 01101 10101 111011 01111 10110 11101 111 01011 11111 1001 111010 11111 11101 01101 110010 11110 011011 1111 110110 11111 010110 11001 01101 11111 111010 111101 1111100 11011 0011011 011111 011110 11111 1111100 01111 1101111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 913 |
Words | 197 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on December 27, 2013
Modified on April 01, 2023
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