Analysis of Aberrant



How do you reclaim
  thoughts that have gone

How do you say something
  you can’t

How do you breathe new life
  in your song

With words now escaped,
 —aberrant

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)


Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 1111 111110 11 111111 011 11101 010 0100101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 191
Words 33
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 30
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 07, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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