Analysis of Let Me Ask



How important is the music
  to your verse

How important is the blood
  in your veins

How important is the picture
  to the words

How important…
  let me ask you once again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)


Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 10101010 111 1010101 011 10101010 101 1010 1111101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 203
Words 36
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 32
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 16, 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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