Analysis of One Last Line



The older I get,
the more dear words become

The shorter the days,
the deeper streams run

With time closing in,
I seek poems and rhymes

Into the twilight
—for that last magic line

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)


Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 01011 011101 01001 01011 11100 111001 0101 111101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 210
Words 38
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 34
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 24, 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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