Analysis of Children Of A Greater Dawn



Don’t let your words become
  a dark stranger to you

Or orphans, in search of a lost
  paternity

Never let your feelings wander off
  abandoned and alone

But rechristened, as children
  of a greater dawn

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2015)


Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 111101 011011 11001101 0100 101110101 010001 1110110 10101 010010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 242
Words 39
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 38
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on December 19, 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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