Analysis of Tuesday Musing



Say what you will or wont
  but do as you pray

Bleed as you will in the night
  but carry the day

Take as your conscience directs
  but give all you can

Return when the fighting is done
   —but not before then

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2014)

A Final Amen

Through critical discussion
  he walked in the night

And passed all the doubters
  embracing their fright

After giving it once,
  he gave forever again

For that bigger than him
  —and that final amen

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2014)


Scheme xa ba xx cd E d cb xb xd xd E
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 11111 1111001 11001 1111001 11111 01101011 11011 0100101 01001 1100010 11001 011010 01011 101011 1101001 111011 011001 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 502
Words 88
Sentences 1
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 35
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on October 23, 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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