Analysis of Eternity's Ace



Can you have a mind
and not have a soul
Connection temporal,
divorced from the whole

Can consciousness live
for only itself
A hand with three aces
—His card left undealt

(Rosemont Pennsylvania: April, 2021)


Scheme ABCB XXXA C
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 01101 010100 01101 11001 11001 011110 1111 101010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 200
Words 35
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 55
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted by sage48 on April 19, 2021

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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