Analysis of Raison D'être



Why would I question,
why would I care

Why would I venture,
why would I dare

Why would I set out
for places unknown

If not to find something
—my life has unshown

(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)


Scheme AB CB XX XA C
Poetic Form
Metre 11110 1111 11110 1111 11111 11001 111110 1111 1010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 184
Words 36
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 29
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on October 26, 2020

Modified on March 05, 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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