Analysis of Open Fields



Are you judging from halls
  academic

Or from places where words
  cannot hide

Are your hours immersed in
  false reference

Or in a visceral pursuit
  that defies

All bias and excuse
  living tethered

In their ivy green mansions
  of gloom

While truth and beauty
  run together

Through open fields that no pundit
  has grown

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)


Scheme XX XX XX XX XX XX AX XX A
Poetic Form
Metre 111011 010 111011 101 1110010 1100 10010001 101 110001 1010 0110110 11 11010 1010 11011110 11 010010100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 350
Words 58
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 32
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 23, 2016

Modified on March 09, 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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