Analysis of Verum Tamen—Verum Est



The Self, Free Will, and Love…
  today’s three illusions of life

Without just one our lives negate,
  a charlatan’s delight

For the Self to Love most Freely,
  this Holy Trinity must preside

What Plato ordained and Kant reframed
  —modern thought tries most to hide

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)


Scheme XX AX XB AB X
Poetic Form
Metre 011101 01101011 011110101 010001 10111110 110100101 11001011 1011111 01001010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 304
Words 48
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 47
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 18, 2019

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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