Analysis of Fault—Line



Deeper than love,
deeper than hate
the abyss that surrounds
inclement to wait

Fortune redundant,
heads in the clouds
escape not an option
—lost faces surround

(Ronald McDonald House: September, 2021)


Scheme XAXA XXXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1011 1011 001101 01011 10010 1001 011110 11001 100101010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 193
Words 31
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 54
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by sage48 on September 30, 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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