Analysis of Vindicta



Buried in the shadows,
hiding at night
Valor pierced and left to bleed,   
hemorrhaging with fright
Fangs exposed and deadly,
searing from within
Readying to pounce and strike
—vengeance to begin

(The New Room: March, 2021)


Scheme XAXAXBXB X
Poetic Form
Metre 10001 1011 1010111 100011 101010 10101 1001101 10101 0111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 218
Words 36
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) 89
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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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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