Analysis of Beyond All Excuse



Poetry…
Attacking the mood
Driving its impression inward
Beyond all excuse
Wounding the intellect
Calling out names
Saving the moment
  —resurrecting the soul

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2015)


Scheme AXXXXXXX A
Poetic Form
Metre 100 01001 10101010 01101 10010 1011 10010 01001 010010100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 197
Words 27
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 83
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on November 07, 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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