Analysis of Excerpt

Kurt Philip Behm

The wound bleeds free
—that kills the angry heart

(From My Novel: 'Jumping Into The Darkness'- February, 2021)

Scheme AX A
Poetic Form
Metre 0111 110101 1110100101100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 110
Words 18
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 1
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 43
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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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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