Analysis of No Words Left



Where are the voices crying out
  from the din

Where is the blood you spilled
  from within

Where is that Siren who once
  called your name

Where is the fortune promised
  by fame

Where is the promise you made
  to yourself

Where is that demon unseen but
  still felt

Where is the beacon to lighten
   your ink

Where is the harbor this side of
  the brink

Where is the feeling,
  hearts lost in the fall

Where is the meaning
  —no words left to call

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)


Scheme XA XA XB XB XX XX XC XC DE DE X
Poetic Form
Metre 11010101 101 110111 101 1111011 111 1101010 11 1101011 101 11110011 11 11010110 11 11010111 01 11010 11001 11010 11111 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 468
Words 88
Sentences 1
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 34
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 30, 2019

Modified on March 13, 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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