Analysis of On Spoken Wings



Have you done enough
Have you seen enough
Have you loved enough
  —until an Angel sings

And the Heaven’s sigh
Your last goodbye
Your last goodbye
  —on spoken wings

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2015)


Scheme aaab cCCb x
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 11101 11101 011101 00101 111 111 1101 01001010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 201
Words 33
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 53
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 26, 2019

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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