Analysis of The Ticket Lost



I’m back from war without my soul,
having pawned it on the field
Among the dead and buried dreams,
whose futile prayers concealed
I wonder where my spirit hides,
as I sleep these endless hours
With day as night and night as day,
in loneliness devoured
My mind goes back to search the graves,
old enemies inside
And calls my name into the dark
—reclaiming every lie

(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)


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Poetic Form
Metre 11110111 1011101 01010101 110101 11011101 11111010 11110111 0100010 11111101 110001 01110101 0101001 1010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 384
Words 70
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 156
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on October 05, 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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