Analysis of Seizing The Moment



Give up your torment,  
take back your verse
tomorrow upon you
for better or worse

Take up your wishes,
give in to dreams
sleep in denial,
old memories scream

Free up the moment,
strike out the past
damning the future,
its promise unmasked

Strike up the silence,
freeing new words
seizing the instant
—forever unheard

(The New Room: May, 2022)


Scheme XAXA XXXX BXXX XXBX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 1111 01011 11011 11110 1011 10010 11001 11010 1101 10010 11001 11010 1011 10010 01001 0111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 350
Words 70
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 54
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 13, 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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