Analysis of Lost Sounds



Written fragments
Broken songs
Stepping stones
To hope beyond

Music absent
Long at bay
Vagrant notes
  —last wish to play

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)


Scheme XXXX XAXA X
Poetic Form
Metre 1010 101 101 1101 1010 111 101 1111 0100101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 152
Words 24
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 43
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 28, 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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