Analysis of Bleeding Out



Blood stains in my memory,
clotting in my heart

Arteries of pain and loss
—hemorrhaging the dark

(Dreamsleep: June, 2021)


Scheme XX XX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Metre 1101100 10011 1001101 100001 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 119
Words 20
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 32
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by sage48 on June 27, 2021

Modified by sage48 on June 27, 2021

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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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