Analysis of A Voice Deep Inside Me



There’s a voice deep inside me,
that still tries to get out

No matter my mission,
it screams and it shouts

Its call is then loudest,
on those darkest of nights

When my mind seeks new refuge,
from this Seraph’s delight

I toss and I turn,
but it speaks louder still

As its words start to burn
from new vision distilled

No barter or denial,
will turn back its call

The Muse is on fire,
—my pen can no longer stall

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)


Scheme XX XX XX XX AX AX XB XB X
Poetic Form
Metre 1011011 111111 110110 11011 111110 111011 1111110 11101 11011 111101 111111 111001 1101010 11111 011110 1111101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 438
Words 85
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 39
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 24, 2015

Modified on March 14, 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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