Analysis of Each Footstep Free



My walk each day
Takes me away
Where I can stray
My mind to play

Each trek it seems
Awakens dreams
And thoughts to be
  —each footstep free

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)


Scheme AAAA BBCC C
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 1101 1111 1111 1111 0101 0111 111 010010100
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 175
Words 32
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 47
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 16, 2018

Modified on April 26, 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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