Analysis of Her Eyes



There’s a power that only certain women have,
a force beyond words to describe

Where your breath is frozen, and your eyes are locked,
with every move freeing her guise

You surrender the only thing certain and sure,
your downfall worth all she unmasks

The future and past in a war they’ll both lose
—as you give what her eyes never ask

(Dreamsleep: April, 2020)


Scheme XX XA XA XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 101011010101 01011101 11111001111 110011001 101001011001 111111 01001001111 111101101 110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 358
Words 65
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 57
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 19, 2020

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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