Analysis of Fealty's Bow



Everything
points to something
the many to the one

Everyone
liege to someone
with fealty’s bow restrung

Everywhere
started somewhere
whose map undrawn curates

Every song
birthed in silence
—where voices incubate

(The New Room: September, 2023)


Scheme AAB BBA CCD XDX X
Poetic Form
Metre 10 1110 010101 10 111 1111 10 101 1111 1001 1010 11010 011010
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 253
Words 43
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 40
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on September 30, 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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