Analysis of Liars Configure



Seventy years…
and what have you learned
Don’t give me facts…
what have you learned
Keep your opinions…
what have you learned
Look into my eyes
—what have you learned

(Dreamsleep: November, 2022)


Scheme xaxAxAxA x
Poetic Form
Metre 1001 01111 1111 1111 11010 1111 10111 1111 1010
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 206
Words 34
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 77
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on November 09, 2022

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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