Analysis of Gossamer Wings



Reciting verse,
each stitch unthreads
Freeing moments,
before unread
The air vibrant,
all seams undone
Tapestry open
—silk re-spun

(The New Room: April, 2021)


Scheme AAXXXBBB X
Poetic Form
Metre 0101 111 1010 0101 0110 1101 10010 111 01110
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 152
Words 24
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 63
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted by sage48 on April 20, 2021

Modified on April 13, 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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