Analysis of Embracing Your Fear



I’ve always been good at making an entrance
   never choosing to stay

I’ve always been good at passing through
  most often forgetting the day

I bypassed adulthood, becoming a child
  as your legions mocked and jeered

And answered those voices calling out of the wild
  —embracing everything you fear

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)


Scheme XA XA BX BX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110110 101011 11111101 11001001 110101001 1110101 010110101101 0101011 01001010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 336
Words 53
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 54
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 18, 2018

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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