Analysis of Coleridge’s Dream
Absolutely everything, in the world that is outside of us, is also inside of us
Including but not limited, to cold fusion, teleportation, quantum computing
Our bodies, so disorganized, wings are upside down and feathers on the inside
We cut off all our long ranging sensing, driving without rear view mirrors
In the center of the mind, a ball of energy, front row seats, to the entire universe
Traveling inside our bodies, dreaming up roads, all nerve trunk lines lead to Rome
Like jumping into the sun, coming out in another star, millions of light years away
Stars In My Pockets Like Grains Of Sand, not even thinking, we dream our lives away
Hordes of micro sized animals and plants thriving inside our crowded bodies
Multitudes of colonies, all marching somewhere with us in the driver’s seat bus
Awkwardly perched on children’s booster seats, barely clearing the dashboard
Wearing platform shoes, with blocks strapped to our souls, barely reaching the pedals
Nine out of ten cells within our bodies aren’t us, but them, citizens of the Natural World
From all parts of Earth’s Dominions, not to be confused with the lines drawn in sand
On maps and sometimes scorched on the land, marking senseless, arbitrary boundaries
Sometimes as simple as where the land meets the water, and the body meets the mind
Samuel Coleridge
Stars In My Pockets Like Grains Of Sand, by Samuel Delaney
Scheme | AXXX XXBB CAXX XXCX XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010100011111111100111 010111001110110010 10101010111110101001 1111101101010011110 00101010111001111001010 10001101010111111111 1100101101001011011101 101101111110101110101 1111100011001101010 101100110111001011 1001110101101001 101111111011010010 1111101101010111100101001 11111111101101101 1100111011010100100 01110110110100010101 1010 101101111110010 |
Characters | 1,417 |
Words | 244 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 62 |
Words per line (avg) | 13 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 223 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Absolutely everything, in the world that is outside of us, is also inside of us. From Life Imitating Stars
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Written on 2019
Submitted by rzwilling on May 10, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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