Analysis of Searching For Crazy Horse



Remembering to forget,
the road opened in front of me

Remembering to forget,
the past drifted away

Remembering to forget,
my today my tomorrow

Remembering to forget
—my tomorrow today

(Devil’s Tower Wyoming: September, 1990)


Scheme Ax Ab Ax Ab x
Poetic Form
Metre 0100101 01100111 0100101 011001 0100101 101101 0100101 10101 101010010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 220
Words 35
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 36
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by sage48 on March 08, 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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