Analysis of Glass House



Do you find yourself
under those stones that you’ve thrown
Pummeled with self-hatred
forever alone

Looking up in delirium
Goliath parades
Blinding your vision
—a gravesite charade

(Dreamsleep: December, 2022)


Scheme XAXA XXXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 1011111 101110 01001 10100100 01001 10110 0101 1010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 215
Words 33
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 57
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on December 17, 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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