Analysis of Bleeding The Moment



Hearing it again
for the thousandth rhyme,
still within the present
More inherent, more alive,
each reading
more resurgent

Hearing it again
the words still new,
reborn as they’re recited
Bleeding the moment
away from time
—no longer unrequited

(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)


Scheme Abcxxc Axxcbx x
Poetic Form
Metre 10101 10101 101010 1010101 110 1010 10101 0111 1111010 10010 0111 110010 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 274
Words 47
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 72
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 13, 2022

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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