Analysis of The Camel Threads



No off position
on the genius switch

No light
to then burn out

No cracks to form
on Leonardo’s bronze

No Frazier Ali
rout

The expectations
stretch beyond

What humanity
can span

The eye of the needle,
the camel threads

What always could
—still can

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2020)


Scheme XX XA XX BA XX BC XX XC X
Poetic Form
Metre 11010 10101 11 1111 1111 111 11010 1 0010 101 10100 11 011010 0101 111 11 0100101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 272
Words 49
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 25
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 02, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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