Analysis of Neverland
I dream of Peter Pan.
But something's not right,
the colors are off a bit.
He rides through an open window
on waves of Indian summer, over my head
and down the hall. But he gets the story wrong-
takes my mother, takes my father,
leaves the children sleeping in their beds.
My brother wakes to the sound of their wind-
he won't be left behind- and pads after
in footed pajamas; fly-follows them
down the path of Peter's wake.
I watch through lids too heavy- electric sheep move through my head.
It happens too quickly, my leaden limbs move slow.
I am left standing at the sill
to watch my family fade away.
Scheme | XXXABXCXXCXX BAXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 11011 0101101 11111010 111100101011 01011110101 11101110 101010011 1101101111 1111010110 0100101101 1011101 111111001011111 110110110111 11110101 111100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 590 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 235 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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