Analysis of Frequency Burned

Kurt Philip Behm

The channel seemed open,
  its tuner was stuck

A dial now frozen,
  mixed static and such

The needle was missing,
  its knob wouldn’t turn

Transmission now distant,
—all frequency burned

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

Scheme AX AX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 010110 11011 010110 11001 010110 1111 010110 11001 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 223
Words 34
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 35
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 22, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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