Analysis of Becoming Tomorrow



You have to be young
to disappear…
and healthy enough
to fall into the cracks
of a new tomorrow

You have to be young
to isolate…
and strong enough
to brave the winter
of a new becoming

(The New Room: September, 2022)


Scheme Axbxx Axbcx c
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 101 01001 110101 10101 11111 110 0101 11010 101010 011010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 224
Words 46
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 1
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 56
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on September 26, 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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