Analysis of This Light Unveils



It’s not important what I know,
  but what I choose to feel

The facts once vital fall away,
  my fruit now fully peeled

The numbers orphaned, the glory waived,
  a whiter shade of pale

The music constant, the darkness gone,
  all truth—this light unveils

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)


Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11010111 111111 01110101 111101 010100101 010111 010100101 111101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 287
Words 48
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 45
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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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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