Analysis of There's No Escape



A heavy ear
an empty heart
Breathless voice
with eyes that dart
Love forsaken
rebirthing pain
Hope redundant
—lost refrain

(The New Room: January, 2024)


Scheme XAXAXBXB X
Poetic Form
Metre 0101 1101 101 1111 1010 11 1010 101 011100
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 155
Words 26
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 62
Words per stanza (avg) 13

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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 08, 2024

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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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