Analysis of Sleep
Sleep sneaks up on me while I am awake.
All of my energy it tries hard to take.
It grabs at me morning and evening.
It even bothers me while I am peeing.
Why does sleep have to be this way?
Taking its toll day after day.
It's like having a weight on my back.
Or pulling a train up a steep railroad track.
Just when I think I found the answer.
It is right there waiting like a cancer.
But I have found something to stop all that.
I will just lay down and take myself a nap.
| Scheme | AAXA BBCC DDXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 1111111101 11110011111 111110010 1101011111 11111111 10111101 111001111 1100110111 111111010 1111101010 1111101111 1111101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 461 |
| Words | 99 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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