Analysis of The Origin of Dreams
The momentum of the evening
Cooled by a sun in hiding
Turns itself into a realm of make-believe
Echoing like laughter down the halls of history
Bathed in hope I gather the ravages of time
Pretending youth is capable to relive once again
Here in night's enclosure
Stirring caldrons with the mind
I think to live it all again
But times no friend of mine
He goes about his harvest
Gathering the lives
That faded just as soon as we
Learned to love through lies
Battle hard I'm ready with
Sword and pen in hand
To take back all the laughter
I left on timeless lands.
| Scheme | AAXBXC DXCXXXBXXXDX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 00101010 1101010 10101011101 1001101011100 101110010011 01011100101101 101010 101101 11111101 111111 1101110 10001 11011111 11111 1011101 10101 1111010 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 544 |
| Words | 106 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 12 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 226 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on September 30, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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