Analysis of Orphaned Silent



You hear the words calling,
  but what if they stop

What if the voice changes
  to cold what was hot

And it’s not yours at all
  but a squatter that hides

D.N.A. of its own
  new agenda of lies

Those messages before,
  were they gifts or on loan

Is the feast yours to eat,
  will meat stay on the bone

Will the Muse be unfaithful,
  is divorce in the wind

Leaving words then unnamed
  —orphaned silent within

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2014)


Scheme XX XX XX AX XA XA XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 110110 11111 110110 11111 011111 101011 11111 101011 110001 011111 101111 111101 1011010 101001 101101 101001 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 434
Words 83
Sentences 4
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 37
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on October 23, 2018

Modified on March 12, 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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