Analysis of A Hurt So Good

Kurt Philip Behm

Writing
pains my hand
—as it eases my heart

(Strafford Pennsylvania: November, 1976)

Scheme XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 10 111 111011 1010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 84
Words 13
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 1
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 34
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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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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