Analysis of 1967



Swallowing
lightning
Teasing
the bear
Dharmic
illusions
Circling
a square

Trapping
a rainbow
Embracing
the clowns
Rewriting
language
Up
getting down

Stripping
the moment
Wishes
that fly
Summer
of love
Timeless
 goodbyes

Alice
returning
Virtuous
sin
Lost
in the rhythms
Buried
—within

(The New Room: September, 2023)


Scheme AAABAXAB AXAXAXXX AXXXCXDX DADEXXXE C
Poetic Form
Metre 100 10 10 01 1 010 100 01 10 01 010 01 010 10 1 101 10 010 10 11 10 11 10 1 10 010 100 1 1 0010 10 01 011010
Characters 328
Words 57
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 8, 8, 1
Lines Amount 33
Letters per line (avg) 8
Words per line (avg) 1
Letters per stanza (avg) 53
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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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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