Analysis of Till Death Do Us Part



I stole from myself,
never paying me back,
rich in the spoils of war

Identity gone,
the body count total
—larcenous guilt to endure

(The New Room: March, 2021)


Scheme XXX XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 101011 100111 01001 010110 1001101 0111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 155
Words 29
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 41
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by sage48 on March 19, 2021

Modified on March 05, 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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