Analysis of Ramparts Of Freedom



Are you a servant
to creation’s lord,
every word indentured trope

In towers of despair
each phrase a step
—on the stairs to love and hope

(The New Room: March, 2021)


Scheme XXA XAA X
Poetic Form
Metre 11010 10101 10010101 010101 1101 1011101 0111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 164
Words 31
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 43
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by sage48 on March 12, 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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