Analysis of Illusions
I am a wise fool,
A clown grinning in the dark,
Waiting for a non-existent audience
To applaud.
I am an illiterate poet,
Writing in vain,
Hoping for a grateful audience
To listen.
I am the wind in the trees,
Sighing for want of a story
To send me to sleep,
A lullaby.
I am the flickering candle light,
Waiting for the ardent moth
To singe her wings
And fall.
You are the ghost of my dreams,
The illusion I wanted to find,
And then lost
Forever.
| Scheme | XXAX XXAX XXXX XXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (25%) |
| Metre | 11011 0110001 10101010100 101 111010010 1001 101010100 110 1101001 10111010 11111 010 110100101 1010101 1101 01 1101111 001011011 011 010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 425 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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