Analysis of Dark Itinerant



Wafting in the unmistakable scent
of poor choices
Grifting in the prodigal valley
of mistakes
Loitering in the tenement
of false witness
Wandering along the highway
—of forgotten dreams

(Dreamsleep: September, 2023)


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Poetic Form
Metre 100001001 1110 10010010 101 10000100 1110 1000101 10101 1010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 220
Words 34
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 90
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on September 04, 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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