Analysis of Dream Prison
Once you have everything
you can give it all up
gratuitous though it seems
But until that day
we lust and pray
for what alludes us
—a prisoner of dreams
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2019)
| Scheme | XXA BBXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110 111111 0100111 10111 1101 11011 010011 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 198 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 51 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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