Analysis of That Voice Who Calls



I believe in Jesus
  I believe in Buddha
I believe in Crazy Horse
  —divinity shared

I believe in grace
  I believe in enlightenment
I believe in tomorrow
  —the promise it bears

I believe in man’s ability
  to rise above his nature
Religion a jailer
  —its lies befall

I believe our sacred freedom
  lives within a solemn choice
To become the living embodiment
  —of that voice who calls

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)


Scheme XXXX XAXX XBBX XXAX B
Poetic Form
Metre 101010 101010 1010101 01001 10101 10100100 101001 01011 101010100 1101110 010010 1101 101101010 1010101 1010100100 11111 010010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 424
Words 71
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 67
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 13, 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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