Analysis of By Half

Kurt Philip Behm

The mold has broken,
our future uncast

The best of remembrance,
severed in half

(Train From Grantham: July, 2016)

Scheme XX XX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 01110 10101 011010 1001 11101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 109
Words 19
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 30
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 12, 2016

Modified on March 18, 2023

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