Analysis of To Inspire And Remind



A great voice has been silenced
  the wind through the willows
  blowing once, never to return

His words left behind
  to inspire and remind
   —of those things that we still have to learn

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2019)


Scheme XXA BBA X
Poetic Form
Metre 0111110 01101 10110101 11101 101001 111111111 010010100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 225
Words 37
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 59
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 19, 2019

Modified on April 30, 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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