Analysis of The Line



Conduit of the human spirit
I forced hope into the cord
Draining the tears of
The lost and abandoned
Plugging into outlets
Of forgotten promise
Forcing their light
Onto the dark barren screen
Charging into what
I had charged over before
  —crossing the line
  —crossing the line

(Villanova Post Office: January, 2015)


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Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 310
Words 52
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 128
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on November 05, 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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