Analysis of Her Right



Sleeping alone,
  the wrath of the Muse upon me

Chilled to the bone,
  her deadly silence enwrapped me

From deep in the night,
  a stern warning then came

“Your pen is your phallus,
  —my right to reclaim”

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)


Scheme AB AB XC XC B
Poetic Form
Metre 1001 01101011 1101 0101011 11001 011011 11111 11101 010010100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 244
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 10, 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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