Analysis of Knowing Is Believing



If your heart
stops
Does consciousness
die
What life
connected
Can
death untie
Forever
a concept
As still
unproved
No one
to comment
Who’s left
—the room

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)


Scheme XXXAXXXABXXXXXXX B
Poetic Form
Metre 111 1 1100 1 11 010 1 101 010 010 11 01 11 110 11 01 1010
Characters 188
Words 31
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 16, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 9
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 74
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on December 22, 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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