Analysis of The Verse Now safe



Endowed with words,
  I run to the page

Hoping my pen
  can be found

Keeping them alive, I’ve
  yet to inscribe

Their voices seep and drip
  to the ground

Left waiting inside
  my hand starts to write

As the ink begins to flow
  lines astound

My day now complete,
  this night I shall sleep

The gifted verse safe
 —written down

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)


Scheme XX XA BX XA XX XA XX BX X
Poetic Form
Metre 0111 11101 1011 111 101011 1101 110101 101 11001 11111 1010111 101 11101 11111 01011 101 010010100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 357
Words 64
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 31
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 17, 2018

Modified on March 11, 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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