Analysis of The Future To the Past



To tell if you’re a Poet,
  from the first line to your last

Do your words connect with feeling,
 —the future to the past

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)


Scheme XA XA X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 1111010 1011111 11101110 010101 010010100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 162
Words 28
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 41
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 22, 2017

Modified on March 05, 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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