Analysis of Maybe



Maybe I’ll remember,
 maybe you will too

Maybe once it mattered,
  maybe more to whom

Maybe this will lessen,
  maybe it will salve

Maybe there’s forgiveness,
  maybe—maybe not

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)


Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 101010 10111 101110 10111 101110 10111 101010 10101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 212
Words 32
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 33
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 08, 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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