Analysis of Are You Living Now



Is there always one verse
  you still have yet to write

And if not—what’s the point
  of it all

Are you the repository of
  all you have felt

Or the dealer and merchant
  of lies

Are your thoughts tattooed onto
  your immortal soul

With your feelings exposed
  or held back

Are the words disconnected
  from the ink in your veins

Do you live within
  all that you’ve said

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)


Scheme XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 111111 011001 111 11001001 1111 1010010 11 1110110 10101 111001 111 101010 101011 11101 1111 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 399
Words 72
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 35
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 08, 2018

Modified on March 12, 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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