Analysis of April Bleeding

Kurt Philip Behm

March
  brought me closer
  to the spoken word

March
  created thunder
  never before heard

March
  left forever its stamp
  and imprint

March
  so predacious
  April bleeding
     —in red ink

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)

Scheme Abc Abc Axx Axxx x
Poetic Form
Metre 1 1110 10101 1 01010 10011 1 101011 001 1 11 1010 011 01001010
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 223
Words 33
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 4, 1
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 34
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 12, 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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