Analysis of Threatening Kobold



Escaping the prose,
  I hid in the verse

My mind to compose,
  instead of converse

Defying description,
  I sang through the notes

And placed my inscriptions,
in lyrical rote

I chose to hear music,
  over reasons again

To dine with the mystics,
  where forever begins

And when forcing my pen,
  back to stories untold

The Muse starts to darken
—threatening Kobold

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)


Scheme AB AB CX XD XE XX EX CD X
Poetic Form
Metre 01001 11001 11101 01110 010010 11101 011010 01001 111110 101001 111010 101001 011011 111001 011110 1001 010010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 390
Words 65
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
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 December 08, 2016

Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on February 08, 2020

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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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