Analysis of Be Most Careful



Be careful as you age …
when they try to convince you
that your rough edges need to
come off

Be careful when they say that
“Your words need to be more
carefully chosen and more appropriate
to the politically elite”

Be careful when they threaten those
things that you have developed over
time that they will never appreciate
or understand

But be most careful when they tell  
you… “We are really your friends and
have only your best interests at heart,”
—be most careful

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2015)


Scheme XAAX XXXX XBXX XXXX B
Poetic Form
Metre 110111 1111011 1111011 11 1101111 111111 10010010100 100100001 11011101 111101010 111110010 101 11110111 11110110 110111011 1110 010010010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 509
Words 90
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 82
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on December 15, 2015

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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