Analysis of Blessings Counted



Looking down,
I’ve been so lucky

Looking up,
still more to know

Fortune smiles,
the road still open

Steeper yet
—but blessed to go

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)


Scheme XX XA XX XA X
Poetic Form
Metre 101 11110 101 1111 101 01110 101 1111 01001010
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 165
Words 28
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 27
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 16, 2020

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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