Analysis of Or Turn You Out



Is remembrance now a hidden tenant,
  that lives throughout your home

Does it lurk in every corner,
  to come out when you’re alone

Is that voice heard down a distant hall,
  a lost child once left about

Does the face now staring through the dark,
   draw you in—or turn you out

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)


Scheme XX XX XA XA X
Poetic Form
Metre 1010101010 110111 111010010 1111101 111110101 0111101 101110101 1101111 01001010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 312
Words 55
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 49
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 11, 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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