Analysis of Darkness Fleeting



The depth of your inkwell
the breadth of your pain
where life springs eternal
again and again

To suffer the moment
in timeless refrain
releasing the freedom
removing the stain

Each diamond unpressured
betrays like the night
whose darkness is fleeting
and gone with the light

Your quill reaching deeply
for what came before
and what lives forever
—in words evermore

(The New Room: May, 2022)


Scheme ABAX CBXB CDXD AEXE X
Poetic Form
Metre 01111 01111 111010 01001 110010 01001 010010 01001 1101 01101 110110 01101 111010 11101 011010 0110 0111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 397
Words 70
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 64
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 22, 2022

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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