Analysis of The End Of The Beginning



I saw the end
  in the beginning
  at the beginning
  of the end

I wrote the final chapter
  before the preface
  with nothing left
  to send

I walked 1000 miles
  before sitting down
  then walked 1000 miles
  again

To reach the end of
  the beginning
  the beginning of
  the end

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)


Scheme ABBA XXXA CXCX DBDA X
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 00010 10010 101 1101010 01010 1101 11 111 01101 111 01 11011 0010 00101 01 0100101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 306
Words 54
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 48
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 26, 2018

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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