Analysis of The Gift



It’s not the money,
 and it’s not the fame

The great gift of life
 —is life

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)


Scheme AX BB A
Poetic Form Tetractys  (60%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Metre 11010 01101 01111 11 010010100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 118
Words 20
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 29
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 14, 2018

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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