Analysis of Chasing Perdition



The White Whale
Atlantis
or Holy Grail

Avarice and greed
destruction
prevails

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)


Scheme AXA XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 011 010 1101 10001 010 01 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 104
Words 17
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 1
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 28
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 10, 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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