Analysis of Another Chance



I like hitchhiking
because it’s clean…
Its ending not restrained
by false beginnings
The future more indentured
than the past
With freedom wrapped inside
this very moment
Each car another chance  
—to say goodbye

(Dreamsleep: October, 2019)


Scheme XXXXXXXXXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1110 0111 110101 11010 0101010 101 110101 11010 110101 111 1010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 236
Words 37
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 10, 1
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 98
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on October 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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