Analysis of Trailing Regret



Retracing my steps …
picking up the pieces
of a misguided past
Cleaning up the memories
that so litter my
attention
Given one more chance
to change
the things I never intended
Given one last chance
to right the wrongs
—of my prodigal ways

(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)


Scheme XXXXXXAXXAXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 01011 101010 100101 1010100 11101 010 10111 11 01110010 10111 1101 111001 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 270
Words 48
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 24

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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm 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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