Analysis of Forgiveness For Less



I never read it,
  the way it was written

I never wrote it,
  the way it should read

The lines connected,
 were for me to be broken

A lesson once ending,
  is where I began

I spoke out of time,
  out of place…out of line

I wrote what I saw,
  once the future was gone

I prided myself,
  in a vision self nurtured

Asking permission for nothing,
  —and forgiveness for less

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February,2017)


Scheme AB AX XB CX XX XX XX CX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11011 011110 11011 01111 01010 0111110 010110 11101 11111 111111 11111 101011 1101 0010110 10010110 001011 010010100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 399
Words 75
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 34
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 03, 2017

Modified on May 02, 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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