Analysis of All Escape Disowned



Did you dodge the bullet,
  but not its intent

Is the ocean now calm,
  as the storm reinvents

Have feelings rehardened,
  with blood on the stone

Back to back with yourself,
 —all escape you’ve disowned

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)


Scheme AX XX AX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 111010 11101 101011 1011 1101 11101 111101 101101 010010100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 240
Words 39
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 38
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 15, 2018

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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