Analysis of Lost Candle Of Time



Can time survive in purer form
  devoid of reference
  future—past

Can the present become
  a bible
  for every sage

Like a black hole
  compressing within itself
  imploding front to back

Its enigma leads
  to an eternity dark
    —lost candle to the flame

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)


Scheme XXX XXX XXX XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11010101 011100 101 101001 010 11001 1011 0100101 010111 10101 1101001 110101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 291
Words 46
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 45
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 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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