Analysis of To Call From Within



Each mind is a filter…
the wheat from the chaff

Each vision dissected,
to cry or to laugh

Each chance in the moment,
to live or to hide

Each reason a marker,
to vow or belie

Each leaf that has fallen,
the price that we’ve paid

Each morning recalling,
which bed is unmade

Each voice in the distance,
one name on the wind

Each memory unspoken
—to call from within

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2019)


Scheme AB XB XX AX CD XD XX CX A
Poetic Form
Metre 111010 01101 110010 11111 110010 11111 110010 11101 111110 01111 110010 11101 110010 11101 1100010 11101 010010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 392
Words 74
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 35
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on November 12, 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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