Analysis of Voices Call Distant



The places I’ve traveled,
yet still haven’t seen

Those roads that I’ve ridden,
while caught in-between

The mileage piled up,
as memory lay stacked

Where voices call distant
—my mind to go back

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)


Scheme XA XA XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 010110 1111 111110 11001 01011 110011 110110 11111 01001010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 230
Words 37
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 36
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 13, 2017

Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on September 26, 2019

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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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