Analysis of Memories Of Ouray



Nothing about life is impossible,
 viewed while looking up

Nothing about death is reversible,
 viewed while looking down

All in between is contestable,
winds blow North and South

Nothing promised, nothing cursed
—the choice to laugh or frown

(Ouray Colorado: October, 1995)


Scheme AX AB AX XB X
Poetic Form
Metre 1001110100 11101 1001110100 11101 100110100 11101 1010101 011111 1010010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 267
Words 42
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 44
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by sage48 on March 01, 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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