Analysis of Turning Me Back Around



My pen would be dry if the world
  were the only cry for more

But Laura’s voice from within,
  asserts with a solemn command

Kindling my eternal fire—stoking the
  questioning cord

Burning away the doubt,
—and turning me back around

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)


Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11111101 0010111 111101 01101001 10101010100 1001 100101 0101101 010010010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 271
Words 44
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 43
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on October 22, 2016

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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