Analysis of Daydreaming
Daydreaming in a café,
I'm nursing a coffee.
And as I take a sip,
stare into a mirror.
Everything's surreal,
a silver twilight zone.
And I sit there transfixed,
by every shifting scene.
I know it's only glass,
with a reflective sheen.
Yet like reality,
it's something very real.
Finding faults fascinate,
mine are soon scrutinized.
And I stare at myself,
wondering who'll blink first.
In this world of shadows,
entertainment's for free.
Like a voyeur, I watch
people perform unseen.
Scheme | AAXX BXXC XCDB XXAX XDXC |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10001 110010 011101 101010 1001 01011 011101 1100101 111101 100101 1110 110101 10110 11110 01111 100111 01111 01011 10111 100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 464 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on August 21, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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