Analysis of To See, Hear, Feel, And Love



Do you need to open your eyes
   to see?

Do you need to have the words spoken
   to hear?

Do you need to pierce beneath the skin
   to feel?

Do you need to first understand
   —to love?

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)


Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11111011 11 111110110 11 111110101 11 1111101 11 01001010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 217
Words 41
Sentences 5
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 32
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 21, 2019

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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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