Analysis of Current Of Dreams
A river is but a witness,
to what lay along its banks
Carrying forth transcendent dreams,
flowing stillness, giving thanks
A river travels onward,
while buried in its wake
The current freeing motion’s form
—offering escape
(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)
| Scheme | XA XA XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011010 1110111 10010101 1010101 0101010 110011 01010101 10001 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 244 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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