Analysis of Truant Verse



Finding fault
with a vagrant poem,
its message left unclear

Falling short,
while aiming long,
to harken every ear

What’s left unsaid,
an unmade bed,
the sheets pulled down and bare

The words still truant,
their search goes on
—whose message all to share

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)


Scheme XXX XXX AAB XXB X
Poetic Form
Metre 101 101010 110101 101 1101 1101001 0101 1011 011101 01110 1111 110111 010010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 287
Words 48
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 47
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on September 10, 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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