Analysis of Never



Never let intelligence
Get in the way of good judgment
Never let excuses
Inside your dreams
Never let the refusals
Cancel out the invitations
Never let tomorrow
 —destroy today

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2014)


Scheme XXXXXXXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1010100 10011110 101010 0111 1010010 1010010 10101 0101 010010100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 211
Words 33
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 90
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on October 15, 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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