Analysis of Voices That Call



Real poets do not hide
  behind ivy covered walls

But write within the maelstrom
 —of those voices that call

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2015)


Scheme XX XX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 110111 0110101 1101010 111011 010010010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 147
Words 23
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 40
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 30, 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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