Analysis of Canyon Dancers



Deep in the canyon with the grace of your souls
  carrying your memory inside me

Visiting places where we spent time before
  seeing each one of your faces

Hearing your voices whispering inside
  reminding of what we knew then

Sealing a vision all time has denied
   old beginnings freed from the end

Deep in the canyon, the cliffs high above
   the echoes like condors they climb

The river runs wild as it carries our dream
  like a mother in birth of a child

The wind calls out once, then calls out again
  its question defying an answer

As our souls reunite in the vastness below
   —the story of five canyon dancers

(Havasupai Indian Village: January, 2019)


Scheme XA XX BC BX XX XX CX XX A
Poetic Form
Metre 10010101111 1001100011 10010111101 10111110 1011010001 01011111 1001011101 10101101 1001001101 01011011 010111110101 101001101 0111111101 110010110 110101001001 010111010 110010100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 648
Words 116
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 58
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 30, 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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