Analysis of Salvation Besought



My currency
My words
My fortune
My thoughts
My freedom
My expression
My salvation,
—besought

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)


Scheme AXBXXBBX A
Poetic Form
Metre 1100 11 110 11 110 1010 1010 1 010010100
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 126
Words 19
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 54
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 08, 2017

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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