Analysis of Do You



Do you have the key
  that will unlock a new door

Do you have the words
  that will heal an old wound

Do you have the eyes
  that can share in the tears

Do you have a heart,
—not yet wrenched from your soul

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2013)


Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 1101011 11101 111111 11101 111001 11101 111111 01001010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 239
Words 48
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 37
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on November 08, 2016

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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