Analysis of Lost Voices



What versus why,
each millennium cries

Man on the run,
all truth in disguise

Modernity reels
from an ancient ideal

Until time the thief
—reveals

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)


Scheme XA XA BX XB X
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 101001 1101 11001 01001 111001 01101 01 010010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 180
Words 29
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 30
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on September 17, 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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