Analysis of Consensure



The laws we need most
stay unwritten

As tyranny runs wild
without sanctions in place

Minus shared common values
can we ever regroup

From this polarization
—and dog eat dog race

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2020)


Scheme XA XB XX AB X
Poetic Form
Metre 01111 1010 110011 011001 1011010 111001 110010 01111 010010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 210
Words 35
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 35
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on October 10, 2020

Modified on March 14, 2023

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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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