Analysis of Summa Mater



The Ocean has no conscience,
no judgment, joy, or hate

She dances with you to her beat
in stirring waves of fate

With reverence you may enter
all blessings on the day

But just one slip and she reminds
what ancient mariners say…

“Red sky at morning, sailors warning
red sky at night, sailors delight”

Her message best taken when early to bed
life in the balance, her power to dread

(Rosemont Pennsylvania: June, 2022)


Scheme XA XA XB XB XX CC X
Poetic Form
Metre 0101110 110111 11011101 010111 11001110 110101 11110101 1101001 111101010 11111001 01011011011 1001001011 10101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 429
Words 82
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 47
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 30, 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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