Analysis of And Dwelt Within Us



God is dead
your Divinity wakens
the Word incarnate
—each breath fortells

(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)


Scheme XAXA X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (60%)
Cinquain  (40%)
Metre 111 101001 01010 111 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 103
Words 17
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 40
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 18, 2023

Modified on March 19, 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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