Analysis of Dying To Be Free



We have nothing to agree about,
  there is no common ground

You clinging hard to all excuse
  and me to reasons found

Thirty-five years and nothing’s changed,
   as you relive the past

Our blood runs thin, our names the same,
  you feast on what I fast

With history gone, there’s nothing shared
  except to disagree

You hanging on to a dying past,
  me, dying to be free

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)


Scheme XA XA XB XB XC BC C
Poetic Form
Metre 111010101 111101 11011101 011101 10110101 110101 1011110101 111111 110011101 011001 110110101 110111 010010100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 405
Words 71
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 45
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 01, 2018

Modified on March 11, 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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