Analysis of Mexican Hat



Monument Valley,
you whisper going through

HOPING IT WON’T HEAR
HOPING IT WON’T HEAR

Whatever you say
—never to be enough

(Duchesne Utah: June, 2008)


Scheme xx AA xx x
Poetic Form
Metre 10010 110101 10111 10111 1011 101101 111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 151
Words 25
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 29
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 09, 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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