Analysis of The Present Flows



Closing the door on my yesterdays,
  tomorrow looked on in pride

Setting the lock on the future and past
  —in isolation they both cried

A Savior instant, the moment supreme,
  as the now both comes and goes

All memory forsaken in times broken dreams
  —as eternal, the present flows

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)


Scheme XA XA XB XB X
Poetic Form
Metre 10011110 011101 1001101001 0010111 0101001001 1011101 110001001101 10100101 010010010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 321
Words 53
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 51
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on September 22, 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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