Analysis of Darkness Runs



The night a gift
  though minus sleep

With dreams adrift
  and words to keep

Blankness woven
  connection spun

A poem born
  —dark on the run

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)


Scheme AB AB CC XC X
Poetic Form
Metre 0101 1101 1101 0111 110 0101 0101 1101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 172
Words 29
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 27
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 15, 2018

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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