Analysis of The End



Married  
to the sound
of their own voice

Divorced
from those
who elected them to serve

Philanderers
of a
bigger truth

Infidels
in the end
  —only to themselves

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2013


Scheme XXA XXX AXX XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 10 101 1111 01 11 1010111 1 10 101 100 001 10101 010010010
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 206
Words 33
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 32
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on October 07, 2018

Modified on April 10, 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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