Analysis of All Eternity Unknown



Did you try to take it with you,
  did you really think you could

Did your journey end abruptly,
  as you never thought it would

Are those things that you acquired,
  much of comfort to you now

Are those dreams left uninspired,
  parked on someone else’s cloud

Did you once just say “I’m sorry,”
  for those things you didn’t do

Do you weep in fearful moments,
  for those things you wish you knew

Was your lack of all contrition,
  what’s now written on your stone

Is your map unmarked and barren,
 —all eternity unknown

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)


Scheme AB CB DX DX CA XA EF EF X
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111 1110111 11101010 1110111 11111010 1110111 1111010 111101 11111110 111111 11101010 1111111 11111010 0110111 11101010 1010001 0100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 557
Words 99
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 48
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 12, 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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