Analysis of To Dan Fogelberg



Where do you go
at the end of your dreams
Where do you go
when the daylight moves on

Where do you go
once your voice has run dry
Where do you go
—when tomorrow is gone

(Pagosa Springs Colorado: July, 2019-Rewritten 2-23-2021)


Scheme AxAx AxAx x
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 101111 1111 10111 1111 111111 1111 10111 110101010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 219
Words 43
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 58
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted by sage48 on February 23, 2021

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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