Analysis of SlEEPING AWAKE
Sleeping awake
I slept in your arms all night
A dream of no return
Every atom every part still asleep
Opened the window shades
Bright yellow cardboard sun blinded me
Still in your arms
Spilt milk made of white paper
Paper geese carried your voice
Walls came crashing down around me
Every part of me in a deep deep sleep
I slept in your arms all night
A dream of no return
We snuggled and thought up beautiful melodies
Of a world we wouldn't know
You awoke and put on cardboard slippers
Poured paper coffee into your paper mug
You sat in a big card board rocking chair
And dreamt up another one
| Scheme | aBCdefghifdBCjklmno |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001 1101111 011101 100101001101 100101 11011101 1011 1111110 1011011 11101011 10011100111 1101111 011101 11011100100 1011101 101011110 11010011101 1100111101 0110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 575 |
| Words | 113 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 19 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 480 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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