Analysis of Scio Te Ipsum



In most things a fledgling
to some degree
A novice at love
and what’s not to be
Indentured forever
beyond my leave
And only an expert
—at being me

(The New Room: June, 2021)


Scheme XAXAXXXA X
Poetic Form
Metre 011010 1101 01011 00111 010010 0111 010110 1101 0111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 169
Words 34
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 67
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted by sage48 on July 01, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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