Analysis of Feast From Within



Carrying them with me,
   traveling through time

The words seed my memory,
  —new meter and rhyme

Spreading them freely,
  over days fallowed thin

New feelings sprout upward,
  —I feast from within

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)


Scheme AB AB AC XC A
Poetic Form
Metre 100111 10011 0111100 11001 10110 10111 110110 11101 010010100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 234
Words 35
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 37
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 20, 2016

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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