Analysis of Dusk To Dawn



Life …
changes color
when twilight returns
Darkness
a palette
remixing your doubt
Stars
 a backdrop
canvassed with unknowing
Rainbows
left truant
—moon shadows about

(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)


Scheme XXXXXAXXXXXA X
Poetic Form
Metre 1 1010 1101 10 010 111 1 01 101010 1 110 1101 110
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 197
Words 29
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 79
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 29, 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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