Analysis of Each Calling



Sleeping in the open air,
  reconstitutes my soul

Walking through an empty space,
  my spirit free to roll

Looking once but hearing twice,
  each calling from above

Seeing clearly deep within,
 —new messages of love

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)


Scheme XA XA XB XB X
Poetic Form
Metre 1000101 111 1011101 110111 1011101 110101 1010101 110011 010010100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 250
Words 39
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 40
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 12, 2018

Modified on March 14, 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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