Analysis of The Freedom Within



Your ideas have merit,
  that your words can’t support

Your spirit is strong,
  but your language is weak

Your eyes are wide open,
  while your tongue remains tied

Your voice now enslaved
   —to the freedom within

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)


Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1010110 111101 11011 111011 111110 111011 11101 101001 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 247
Words 40
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 39
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 17, 2019

Modified on March 14, 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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