Analysis of My Spirit Unbound



Death once so foreign,
  calls like a friend

Voice ever gentle,
  heard at the end

Death once a nightmare,
  dreams to impound

Now comes to free
 —my spirit unbound

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2017)


Scheme XA XA XB XB X
Poetic Form
Metre 11110 1101 11010 1101 1101 1101 1111 11001 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 195
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 July 12, 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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