Analysis of Eternity's Spark



Touching the sunrise,
  immortality burned

Touching the sunrise,
  infinity returned

Touching the sunrise
  time left in the dark

Touching the sunrise
 —eternity’s spark

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)


Scheme Ab Ab Ac Ac x
Poetic Form
Metre 1001 01001 1001 010001 1001 11001 1001 11 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 202
Words 27
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 33
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 12, 2018

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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