Analysis of It's Harder



It’s harder to lie in verse or a poem,
  than it is with dialog or prose

It’s harder to bend the truth over a feeling,
 than around what you or someone else knows

It’s harder to feign an eruption of light,
  or the isolation of being alone in the dark

It’s harder to mislead with words formed in your soul,
  than with tomes that were written to outsmart

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)


Scheme XA XA XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11011011010 111110011 110110110010 101111111 1101111011 1001011001001 110101111011 111101011 01001010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 393
Words 72
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 61
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 09, 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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