Analysis of Walking The Line



Blood,
fires from my pen
like a well shot round

14 karat penetration,
mighty wound of
self aggression

Letters,
reducing armies
into a special force

Time dying,
as mortared ink strikes
the page

The raw edge of battle,
...new combatants die,
leaving their mark

Cursive warriors of the
spoken word,
martyred sentinels of a bigger truth,
—walking the line

(Richmond Virginia: December, 2002)


Scheme XXX AXA XXX XXX XXX XXXX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (55%)
Metre 1 10111 10111 10010 1011 1010 10 01010 010101 110 1111 01 011110 10101 1011 110010 101 1010010101 1001 10010010
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 377
Words 63
Sentences 2
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 1
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 44
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on December 11, 2016

Modified on March 09, 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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