Analysis of Epiphany Relayed



Caught up in the great “I don’t know,”
my mind refused to learn

Moving into the “Maybe so,”
my thoughts began to turn

Morphing through each “To and fro,”
the options marked my days

Spreading what was “Mine to sow”
—epiphany relayed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)


Scheme AB AB AX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11001111 110111 10010101 110111 1011101 010111 1011111 01001 010010010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 284
Words 49
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 42
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on December 05, 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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