Analysis of The Voice



When I was starving,
poetry fed me

When I was sick,
the verse made me well

When I was homeless,
words gave me shelter

When I was lost
—the voice led me home

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)


Scheme XX XX XA XX A
Poetic Form
Metre 11110 10011 1111 01111 11110 11110 1111 01111 010010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 191
Words 37
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 31
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 19, 2019

Modified on March 05, 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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