Analysis of Set In Stone



Change what you did,
and I’ll change how I feel
You can’t change forever
denying what’s real
The fly’s in the ointment,
the die has been cast
This moment endemic
—predestined to last

(Dreamsleep: February, 2022)


Scheme XAXAXBXB X
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 011111 111010 01001 010010 01111 110010 1011 1100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 223
Words 39
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 83
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted by sage48 on February 06, 2022

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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