Analysis of Free To Roam



The mind and body dualist,
his prison for a throne

Confusion reigns where consciousness walks,
where can it find a home

The soul the prize that matters,
the spirit up for grabs

Proximity defining its own lie,
positioning unclad

But somewhere in the distance,
and somewhere heretofore

A laughter lives beyond itself,
escaping its own core

The zero-sum dilemma,
what Sages claim to own

Lay far beyond what’s deep within
—where truth is free to roam

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)


Scheme AB XC XX XA XD XD XB XC X
Poetic Form
Metre 01010100 110101 010111001 111101 0101110 010111 0100010111 01001 110010 0101 01010101 010111 0101010 110111 11010101 111111 010010100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 474
Words 80
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 44
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 03, 2020

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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