Analysis of The Devil's Scar



Not reliant on your approval,
  I soared to the heavens

Not seeking your acceptance,
  I burned past the brightest star

Not wanting anything from you,
  I gave myself back to the beginning

In need of nothing
  —the devil’s scar

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)


Scheme XX XA XB BA X
Poetic Form
Metre 101011010 111010 1101010 1110101 1101011 111110010 01110 0101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 259
Words 43
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 41
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 14, 2018

Modified on April 28, 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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