Analysis of Damnation Defined



Purity weds corruption,
  a marriage unrhymed

An Angel having fallen
 —damnation defined

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2014)


Scheme AB AB X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Metre 1001010 0101 1101010 01001 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 124
Words 16
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 34
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 17, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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