Analysis of If The Moment Repeats



If you want to accomplish something,
  stop talking

If you want to get somewhere,
  start walking

If you want to be someone,
  stop wishing

If you find your table bare,
  start fishing

If the door remains barred and closed,
  knock again

If the meaning lags behind intent,
  yourself befriend

If the sentences won’t start or end,
  reopen your heart

If the moment repeats again the same,
  with love—restart

(Train-Brattleboro Vermont: September, 2015)


Scheme AA BA XA BA XX XC CD XD X
Poetic Form
Metre 111101010 110 111111 110 111111 110 1111101 110 10101101 101 101010101 0101 101001111 01011 1010010101 1101 1101010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 441
Words 72
Sentences 1
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 39
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 06, 2019

Modified on March 12, 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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