Analysis of Thast Voice



Writing for you,
  the words slip away

Writing for me,
  all letters in play

Listening to you,
 a cry far and wide

Listening to me,
 —that voice deep inside

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)


Scheme AB CB AD CD X
Poetic Form
Metre 1011 01101 1011 11001 10011 01101 10011 11101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 188
Words 33
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 29
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 17, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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