Analysis of Catching My Words



Looking over the edge
  of an emotional cliff

I saw new feelings
  for the very first time

Crying out from the back
  of a Seraph’s wings

They were begging for me
  to climb on

Promising a flight above
  reason and logic

Blinding my eyes
  with overpowering rhyme

I fell into the new silence
  with the Angels below

Catching my words as they
  dropped
   —in their song

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)


Scheme XX AB XA XX XX XB XX XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 101001 1101001 11110 101011 101101 1011 101011 111 1000101 10010 1011 110101 11010110 101001 101111 1 011 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 402
Words 70
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 35
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 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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