Analysis of The Search



The deeper we get into
  the idea of what’s real,
    the further away we become

Trying to put our formulas
  into a box,
    is folly zero sum

Like the horizon before you
  that you see but can’t touch,
    the truth forever disguised

Its costume to change
  with every reason we claim
    —only the search bringing meaning to the wise

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)


Scheme AXB XXB AXX XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 0101101 0010101 01001101 101110100 0101 110101 10010011 111111 0101001 10111 11001011 10011010101 01001010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 368
Words 63
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 56
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 23, 2019

Modified on March 13, 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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