Analysis of Before Goodbye

Kurt Philip Behm

Unliving your memory
—unbreaking my heart

(Dreamsleep: April, 2020)

Scheme XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11100 111 110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 67
Words 9
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 1
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 27
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 17, 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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