Analysis of Forever To Shine



Starting on the emotional freeway,
  I stayed between the double lines

But traveling beyond the factual byway,
  I hitchhiked through my mind

Passing each word going north or south,
  and then driven to what I might find

I journeyed alone far into the night,
  headlight’s once dark, now forever to shine

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)


Scheme AX AB XB XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 101001001 11010101 11000101001 11111 101110111 011011111 1100110101 111101011 0100101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 336
Words 55
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 54
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 27, 2015

Modified on March 14, 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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