Analysis of New Light Unspoken



Nocturnal flower
In need of sleep
Your petals wilt
The count for sheep

New dawn unpromised
The die is cast
A croupier wearing
Sun’s setting mask

Through endless courtship
Faith on the run
A Jester whispers
“Your dreams have come”

The meadow waiting
Its reaper gone
New light unspoken
  —your buds in song

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)


Scheme XABA BXCX XDXX CXDX X
Poetic Form
Metre 01010 0111 1101 0111 111 0111 0110 1101 1101 1101 01010 1111 0110 1101 11010 1101 010010100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 338
Words 57
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 56
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 19, 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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