Analysis of Haunting Silences

Kurt Philip Behm

Whispers …
deep inside my pillow
Reminding
of each fleeting voice
trapped beyond the wind

Memories …
bending like a willow
Weighing down
my broken dreams
—the future lost within

(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)

Scheme XAXXX XAXXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 10 101110 010 11101 10101 100 10101 101 1101 010101 110
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 212
Words 35
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 1
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 55
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 06, 2023

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