Analysis of Chasing My Voice



Tearing through the sky
  of my intention

Flying toward the birth
  of my choice

Begging the gods for one chance
  to proclaim

Chasing the tail end
  of my voice

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)


Scheme XX XA XX XA X
Poetic Form
Metre 10101 11010 100101 111 1001111 101 10011 111 01001010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 191
Words 33
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 31
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 05, 2017

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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