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.


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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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