Analysis of Oil & Water



Yes or no,
right or wrong,
their truth so far apart

Opinion
versus stated fact,
polarized and stark

To give
or sway conjecture,
in light of what is known

Weakness
in consensus lost
— black and white has shown

(Philadelphia Ethical Society: September, 2020)


Scheme XXX XXX XAB XXB A
Poetic Form
Metre 111 111 111101 010 10101 1001 11 11010 011111 10 00101 10111 01001000100010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 246
Words 44
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 41
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on September 21, 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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