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 |
Font size:
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem analysis to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"It's Harder" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 1 May 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem-analysis/48528/it%27s-harder>.
Discuss this Kurt Philip Behm poem analysis with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In