Analysis of The Last Mistake



Playing defense with terrorism,
  —another name for suicide

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)


Scheme XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 10011100 0101110 0100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 96
Words 12
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 1
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 39
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 04, 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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