Analysis of The Angry Lion



A jungle of circumstance…
preying on the silence

Each verse a whip to crack the dark
—and tame the angry lion

(Dreamsleep: November, 2019)


Scheme XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 010110 101010 11011101 0101010 1010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 138
Words 24
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 36
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on November 05, 2019

Modified on April 07, 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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