Analysis of Sodom Be Damned

Kurt Philip Behm

Enter me
like a cathedral
Turn all my pillars
to salt

Love me like every last
pilgrim is watching
Empowering
—passions assault

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)

Scheme AXXB XCCB A
Poetic Form
Metre 101 10010 11110 11 1111001 10110 0100 1001 1100
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 159
Words 27
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 42
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 08, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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