Analysis of Flumen Meum



My Pen
My connection,
My thoughts and
My prayers

My words
My extension,
My gift through
My air

My time
My gestation,
My daughters
My sons

My dreams
My redemption,
My river
—that runs

(Dreamsleep: January, 2021)


Scheme XAXX XAXX XAXB XAXB X
Poetic Form
Metre 11 1010 110 11 11 1010 111 11 11 1010 110 11 11 1010 110 11 1100
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 197
Words 37
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 10
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 33
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by sage48 on January 30, 2021

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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