Analysis of Life's Promise Still Unknown



I didn’t ask to be alone,
  but I’ve always been alone

Living within the shadows,
  that in time became my home

I never asked to be alone,
  but I’ve always been alone

Each day a drifting footprint,
  among endless stepping stones

I didn’t ask to be alone,
  but I’ve always been alone

Each night a stark reminder
  of a dream that’s never shown

I never asked to be alone,
  but I’ve always been alone

The ending now upon me
 —life’s promise still unknown

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2017)


Scheme AA xx AA xx AA ba AA xa b
Poetic Form
Metre 1111101 111101 100101 1010111 11011101 111101 110101 0110101 1111101 111101 1101010 1011101 11011101 111101 0101011 110101 010010010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 498
Words 87
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 42
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on November 11, 2017

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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