Analysis of For All To Share



The Question I Posed ….

If your Poem is still
  an open wound

And you stitch it tight
  with editing

How…
  will it ever bleed free?

(James River Writer’s Conference: October, 2016)

The Actual Poem ….

For All To Share

My Poem still an open wound,
  unstitched by edits snare

Running free on a salted page,
—new blood for all to share

(James River Writers Conference: October, 2016)


Scheme x xa xx xx B x c ac xc B
Poetic Form Tetractys  (33%)
Metre 01011 111011 1101 01111 1100 1 111011 11010100010 010010 1111 11011101 11101 10110101 111111 11010100010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 389
Words 68
Sentences 4
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 29
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on October 17, 2016

Modified on March 26, 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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