Analysis of Dipping My Pen



Staring defiant
into the blind eye of fate
the winds of circumstance
early not late

Staring back angry
its other eye blinked
as clouds blew misfortune
too close to the brink

I reached for my inkwell
I dipped in my pen
my final last script
to enoble the end

With one word I started
whose epistle came fast
to carry me onward
—goodbye was my last

(The New Room: May, 2022)


Scheme XAXA XXXX XXXX XBXB X
Poetic Form
Metre 10010 0101111 01110 1011 10110 11011 111010 11101 11111 11011 11011 1101 111110 101011 110110 1111 0111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 376
Words 75
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 59
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 27, 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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