Analysis of The Difference



Animals think,
and animals react

Animals sleep,
and animals attack

Animals eat,
and animals mate

Animals fly,
and animals wait

Animals feel,
and animals cry

Animals sicken,
and animals die

Animals come,
and animals go

Animals watch,
and animals know

Animals stalk,
and animals deceive

But animals lack faith
—and cannot believe

(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)


Scheme XX XX XA BA XB XB XC XC XD XD X
Poetic Form
Metre 1001 010001 1001 010001 1001 01001 1001 01001 1001 01001 10010 01001 1001 01001 1001 01001 1001 010001 110011 01001 1010
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 338
Words 55
Sentences 1
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 26
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on October 12, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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