Analysis of No Kiss On The Mouth



The hooker had saved a piece of herself,
a part kept new not old

As pure and pristine as a fresh running stream,
never bartered, never sold

The johns came and went, the money got spent,
each trick relined with pain

But in one sacred place, her past is erased
—where sun blocks out the rain

(The New Room: December, 2021)


Scheme XA XA XB XB X
Poetic Form
Metre 0101101101 011111 11010101101 1010101 0110101011 11111 10110101101 111101 011010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 329
Words 70
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 50
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted by sage48 on December 02, 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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