Analysis of As Night The Day



Do your politics define you…
  are your views then left or right?

Does the axe you grind cut sharp and clean
  or tear into the night?

Do the precepts that you claim to own
  just end up owning you?

Is every word what you believe
  —and to thine self be true?

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2019)


Scheme AB XB XA XA X
Poetic Form
Metre 1110011 1111111 101111101 110101 10111111 111101 110011101 011111 010010100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 295
Words 55
Sentences 5
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 45
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 09, 2019

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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