Analysis of And She, My Breath Becomes



The Muse continues to punish me,
whenever I write prose

Her slaps severe with pain heartfelt,
—no fury 'hell hath known'

She sentences me to endless nights,
and days when words won't come

Until I succumb to writing verse,
—and she, my breath becomes

(The Court at KOP: February, 2016)


Scheme AX XX XX XX A
Poetic Form
Metre 010101101 010111 0101111 110111 110011101 011111 011011101 011101 0111100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 280
Words 50
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 44
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 02, 2016

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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