Analysis of Till Death Reclaims

Kurt Philip Behm

Your wounds bleed past tomorrow
 an inconvenient truth
Unsutured blame — till death reclaims
its healing absolute

(Dreamsleep: March, 2024)

Scheme XXXX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 111101 10101 11111 11010 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 145
Words 23
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 57
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 10, 2024

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