Analysis of Wings

Kurt Philip Behm

Facing what I didn’t know,
  the canyon ahead was wide

My bridge half built on doubt and fear
  with nowhere left to hide

Looking down I saw the past
  looking up all questions why

But straight ahead an Angel waits
  —with wings for me to fly

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)

Scheme XA XA XB XB X
Poetic Form
Metre 101111 0100111 11111101 11111 1011101 1011101 11011101 111111 010010010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 280
Words 50
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 44
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on September 02, 2018

Modified on March 15, 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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