Analysis of Second Chances



I most value today
  what I used to walk by

And stop to revisit
  what trailed from behind

Those moments once squandered
  when offered again

In joyous acceptance
  —I embrace from within

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2019)


Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 111001 111111 011010 11101 110110 11001 010010 101101 010010100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 221
Words 36
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 36
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 24, 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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