Analysis of Can a dream deffer
Parrish Childs 1990
Langston asked long ago What happened to a dream deferred?
But I’m asking here and now what do you do if delaying that dream is preferred.
The voices and sounds the shaky feeling and the visual
To me deferring my dreams would be a grand miracle
When I sleep and awake i get this deep and heavy lingering feeling.
I wanna say it’s my own way of healing.
But the visions and things I see ...
it’s so overwhelming and less fulfilling.
Why can’t our dreams be deffered?
They’re not just all sweet
You’d think so but nah it be all blurred
Have my heart pounding and my words all crumbled jumbled and slurred.
My dreams I fear speaking on them
The Question Raised: Does it stink like rotten meat?
These dreams are not sunshine ☀️ when they are about places u go ppl u know
Events and even ppl that u have yet to meet.
Try and cheat !
By staying awake but these visions have no way of escape.
What happens if a dream can defer?
Chances of watching the things u see while u sleep
Actually Unfold in the real world will decrease
Yea my dreams can get real deep...
I’m starting think theres something to me way more than just being the traditional version of a family’s black sheep.
For there are very few close ones who actually knows
Have legit witnessed with me
The events from many of my dreams take form into reality
No one believes in stuff like Psychics vodoo Witchery trickery
But It’s gets way deeper than
what the Birds Eye view and vision
of things can really see.
Oh man It can get so scary
That I just don’t even want to go to sleep
But I know I’m not alone with this
or am I?
Does anyone else feel this way
or is it just me?
That’s why I wanna know. That’s why I prefer,
To know so much if a dream can really defer.
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Metre | 10110111010101 11101011111101011101 010010101000100 11010111101100 111001111101010010 11011111110 10100111 1101001010 1110111 11111 111111111 111100111101001 11111011 01011111101 11111111011011111 010101111111 101 110011110111101 110101101 101100111111 100010011101 1111111 110111011111110001001010111 1111011111001 1101011 001110111110110 11010111011100 1111101 10111010 111101 11111110 11111011111 111110111 111 1101111 11111 11110111101 111110111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,806 |
Words | 377 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 2, 5, 4, 9, 2 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem as a expression of emotions that I have from very intense and emotional dreams that I have. It’s in reference to the original poem written by Langston Hughes dream deffered
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Submitted by Pachilds80 on June 13, 2021
Modified by Pachilds80 on January 11, 2023
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