Analysis of The Devil's Luck



You can’t step into the same river twice,
  and have the water be the same

You can’t throw wishes into the wind,
  and recall them time unclaimed

You can’t put a baby back in the womb,
  once the cord of life has been cut

And you can’t change a lie into the truth,
  your intention—the devil’s good luck

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)


Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1110101101 01010101 111100101 011101 1110101001 10111111 0111010101 101001011 01001010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 345
Words 62
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 52
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 24, 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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