Analysis of Muse



There exist jars of dreams that preserve
Life's unknowns and always have knowns.
When the lids are unscrewed and twisted
Off the confines of our minds,
Strawberry robins and blueberry
Jays dart speedily into a world
Of nymphs and silver linings,
And our lives then bear much fruit and seed.

Watch now, little dream bird, for the skies
You swim can drown even you!
They'll open up great and wide
And welcome your wings to move
Like the wind and flap like a blanket
Hushing a fire. A hypnotist's crystal,
You'll hit balls like Mantle and birth
Word as Shelley once did.

You'll realize there's more jam in your jar
Than can be seen through glass walls and shudder
In knowing it's been there all the while.


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Poetic Form
Metre 101111101 1010111 10111010 1011101 1010010 111000101 1101010 0101111101 111011101 1111101 1101101 0101111 101011010 10100110 11111001 111011 110111011 1111111010 010111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 684
Words 127
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 3
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 186
Words per stanza (avg) 42
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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