Analysis of Without And Within



The moment…
  something other than time

A consonant failure,
  its freedom in rhyme

Happening once,
  as it happens again

Beyond every measure
 —without and within

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)


Scheme XA BA XX BX X
Poetic Form
Metre 010 101011 010010 11001 1001 111001 0110010 01001 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 197
Words 29
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 32
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 20, 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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