Analysis of Language Denied



Partisan dreamer
  audience of one

Killer of grammar
  words on the run

Paragraphs frozen
  the undotted ‘I’

The meaning now freed
  all language denied

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2014)


Scheme AB AB BX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 10010 10011 10110 1101 1010 011 01011 11001 010010100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 190
Words 28
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 30
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 27, 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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