Analysis of First & Last



Truth, the first casualty
  of war

Love, the last casualty
  of truth

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)


Scheme AX AX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (60%)
Lanturne  (20%)
Metre 1011000 11 1011000 11 01001010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 103
Words 16
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 27
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 13, 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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