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
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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