Analysis of Did You Dream
Was the ending
self-fulfilling
Hopes and wishes
by the score
Did you live to dream
or dream to live
Of a life
—that’s something more
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
| Scheme | AA XB XX XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010 1010 1010 101 11111 1111 101 1101 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 175 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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