Analysis of More Than A Cellphone



I’ve left it on rock ledges
  in elevators and bars

Taxicabs, backpacks,
  motorcycles near and far

It’s laid on the Great Wall,
  as I started to walk away

And fell out of the raft
  in Wyoming that day

It flew on the airplane
  after I had gotten off

And spent two days in Key West
  with Fedex as the cost

It’s kept me in touch,
  that’s important I know

But the voice it records
  into words
    —much more so

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)


Scheme XX XX XA XA XX XX XB XXB X
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110 010001 101 100101 111011 11101101 011101 01011 11101 1011101 0111011 111101 11101 101011 101101 011 111 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 447
Words 83
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 37
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 07, 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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