Analysis of Don't Bother



With subconscious desire
  my blood pressure on fire

And the needle ready to break
  through the glass

I try to calm down
  as the muse rises and shouts…

“Don’t
     —even bother to ask”

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)


Scheme AA XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1010010 1110110 00101011 101 11111 1011001 1 101011 01001010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 228
Words 37
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 34
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 21, 2019

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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