Analysis of A Voice Now Gone



The night a killer with retinas that burn,
all verses running mad

Fists of silence coming out of the dark,
opening up to grab

Fingers choking the last vocal chord,
strangulation by command

The quiet finality of a voice now gone
—gripped in my own hands

(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)


Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 010101111 110101 1110101101 100111 101001101 010101 010010010111 10111 11
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 272
Words 49
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 44
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 20, 2020

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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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