Analysis of Call Of The Lute



I lived to find silence,
chasing hither and yon
till morning turned inward
reaching deeply beyond

Now firmly embedded
inside of myself
my eyes turned away
—from what’s spoken unfelt

(Dreamsleep: October, 2021)


Scheme XXAX XXXA X
Poetic Form
Metre 111110 101001 110110 101001 110010 0111 11101 10101 1010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 205
Words 33
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 57
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by sage48 on October 25, 2021

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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