Analysis of Damning Refrain

Kurt Philip Behm

The deeper the words
  formed

The meaner they
  became

‘now free and alive
         and stirred from the bottom

‘once buried and denied
        in moments of pain’

Taking on new life,
  they glare and they scowl

Staring back from the mirror
  —a damning refrain

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)

Scheme XX AX XX XB XX XB A
Poetic Form
Metre 01001 1 0101 01 11001 011010 110001 01011 10111 11011 1011010 01001 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 308
Words 47
Sentences 1
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 31
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 11, 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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