Analysis of Hiding In Plain Sight



Tranquil and quiet…
 a walk in the park
Until life’s Trojan Horse
rolls in from the dark

Cancer invading,
you must parry back
Each moment recaptured
—a present still wrapped

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2020)


Scheme XAXA XXXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 10010 01001 011101 10101 10010 11101 110010 01011 010010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 212
Words 34
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 KurtPhilipBehm on December 08, 2020

Modified on April 21, 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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