Analysis of Not Fully Shorn



Posting then before I’m done,
  the baby not quite born

Feelings chase the words I write,
 —the sheep not fully shorn

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)


Scheme XA XA X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 1010111 010111 1010111 011101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 155
Words 25
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 40
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 03, 2017

Modified on March 14, 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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