Analysis of Dream On
John Mccarron 1856 (Uk)
First dream, let there be light.
It comes this way and that on and on,
To the rhythms of epsilon.
Let's not pretend it can't exist,
In the light of a flickering star
Realise we're swirling around in an infinite
Eddington maelstrom so far
Hi pretty little birdy in the tree
Why don't you walk and talk with me, hmm ,hmm?
Why should I walk when I can fly.
Why should I talk when I can sing.
By the way ,my song is not for you but a mate,
Sure,you can enjoy it anyway.
Why are you still there
Go about your business,
Cheating and maiming and killing,
Ad nauseum infinitum, tweet, tweet.
Why do you fight with your own kind then,hmm, hmm.
Oh don't worry it's only a skirmish, tweet, tweet.
Why don't you use nuclear weapons,hmm,hmm?
Well we wouldn't be as clever as you ,tweet ,tweet.
S'pose so, our massive brains have created such earth shattering inventions,
Our ingenuity knows no bounds . Hmm, hmm.
We couldn't pull the trigger,tweet, tweet.
Neither can we usually, hmm, hmm.
Why do you have them then ? Tweet ,tweet.
Oh! Little birds in the tree, how silly art thee,
When they are used its catastrophe.
They are gone now, tweet ,tweet.
Where to gone, tweet.
Kingdom come gone,
It's our time now.
There's miles and miles of sunshine in the sky,
We can play all day long,
Precious music the only sound.
Second dream,
This one doesn't rhyme,
All the lines are out of time .
The harmonies that never were
Everything's laid to bare
It takes a lonely man to hear the birds in the trees,
But then all men are lonely and lost.
In a senseless world he'll is bent on making sense,
And heaven's beyond our reach and dreams
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 111101101 1010110 11011101 001101001 11100101100 1001011 1101010001 1111011111 11111111 11111111 101111111101 1101110 11111 101110 10010010 11010011 1111111111 111011001011 11111001 111011101111 11110101101011100010 100010011111 1101011 1011100011 11111111 110100111011 111110100 111111 1111 1011 11011 110111001 111111 10100101 101 11101 1011111 01001100 10111 1101011101001 111111001 001011111101 0100110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,629 |
Words | 346 |
Sentences | 26 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 21, 7, 9 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 308 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Written on January 29, 2023
Submitted by johnnymackk on January 29, 2023
Modified on March 14, 2023
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