Analysis of Defiling The Unknown



There’s no bigger threat
than what’s still left to know

Its backbone religion,
as it sits on its throne

What cannot be stated
and proven as fact

Evangelists kidnap
and wear on their backs

With prophecy wrapped
in their folly misled

What’s still undiscovered,
leaves dogma undead

But then when the darkness
moves into light

Revivalists shout,
claiming: “See, we were right”

Leaving two kinds of liars
in this world to be shown

Those twisting the truth
—and those defiling the unknown

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2019)


Scheme AX XB XX XX XX XA XC XC XB XB X
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 101111 11010 111111 110110 01011 01001 01111 11001 011001 01010 1101 111010 1011 11 101101 1011110 011111 11001 011001 01001010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 514
Words 86
Sentences 1
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 38
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 23, 2019

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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