Analysis of The Future Proclaims



The pen and the keyboard…
  their white flag of truce

Now shattered and tattered,
  new words on the loose

The ink stains once mighty,
  a cursor now reigns

As deep into cyberspace,
 —the future proclaims

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)


Scheme XA XA BX XX B
Poetic Form
Metre 01001 11111 110010 11101 011110 01011 110110 01001 010010100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 241
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 February 19, 2017

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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