Analysis of The Ending Assured



If you’re losing you’re winning,
  the path leads one way

The steps to the kingdom,
  a carpet of pain

If your will is unbroken,
  your commitment in stone

The ending assured
—as you sit on the throne

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)


Scheme XX XX XA XA X
Poetic Form
Metre 1110110 01111 011010 01011 1111010 101001 01001 111101 010010100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 239
Words 41
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 37
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 05, 2018

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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