Analysis of Plus One

Kurt Philip Behm

Remembering
what you want to say
Forgetting
what you don’t
A writer’s choice
is zero sum
You will
until you won’t

Considering
that time well spent
Brings on
its just desserts
Consciousness
the poet’s form
Twice forward
— once reversed

(Dreamsleep: May, 2024)

Scheme ABACXXXC ACXXXXCC B
Poetic Form
Metre 0100 11111 010 111 0101 1101 11 0111 0100 1111 11 1101 100 0101 110 101 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 272
Words 46
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 69
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 04, 2024

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