Analysis of Sleeping Away
There you are sleeping; so deep so sound
Hearing nothing experiencing nothing.
Sleeping your life away. Not knowing the time of day.
Missing sharing life with your children their children
They don't really know who you are.
When you're awake for a few hours to eat,
Ignoring everyone and everything just to sleep for hours.
Then you're hurt when no one comes your way.
Who wants to watch you sleep all day?
How do you think they feel?
Today one graduated another gave birth to a child.
You didn't know, you say. "I was sleep for a while."
They knew that, as tears well up in their eyes.
How can you continue to sleep? While your child cry's.
Scheme | ABCDEFGCCHIJKG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101111 10100100010 1011011100111 101011110110 11101111 11011011011 01010010111110 111111111 11111111 111111 01110001011101 110111111101 1111111011 111010111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 640 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 507 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
About this poem
This about a friend who sleeps all day everyday.
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Written on October 03, 2021
Submitted by CleetustheGladiator on October 03, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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