Analysis of Grief To Go



Sermon to the choir….
  the writers group sat motionless
  with their heads down

Sermon to the choir….
  they listened for their instructor
  to announce—“your time starts now”

Sermon to the choir….
  they tried to imagine what they had never seen
  while wondering about what they couldn’t know

Sermon to the choir….
  the writers group then raised their heads
  and packed their grief to go

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)


Scheme Axx Aax Axb Axb x
Poetic Form
Metre 101010 01011100 1111 101010 11011010 1011111 101010 111010111101 1100011111 101010 01011111 011111 0100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 436
Words 68
Sentences 5
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 66
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 05, 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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