Analysis of Life Unbound



Waiting for life to come to me,
the clock ticked down to one

With barely but a second left,
my tendency to run

With nothing left but one last tick,
all motion seemed to stop

Perspective changed, then rearranged,
a lifetime on the spot

My eyes won’t blink, the fear too great,
of staying closed for good

As from a distant galaxy,
I finally understood

All life had boiled down to this,
eternity defined

When everything that ever was,
together crossed my mind

I left the past and future mired,
to breed and then deceive

And took this present life unbound
—unto my soul reprieved

(The New Room: May, 2022)


Scheme AB CB XX XX XD AD XE XE XX XC X
Poetic Form
Metre 10111111 011111 11010101 110011 11011111 110111 0101101 01101 11110111 110111 11010100 110001 1111111 010001 1101101 010111 11010101 110101 01110101 10111 0111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 616
Words 130
Sentences 1
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 43
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 30, 2022

Modified on April 19, 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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