Analysis of In Debt To Tomorrow



The encumbrance of peace
is war
 Silence remortgaged
—as payments begin

(Dreamsleep: May, 2022)


Scheme XXXX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Lanturne  (40%)
Metre 0111 11 101 11001 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 99
Words 15
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 38
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 21, 2022

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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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