Analysis of A Day You'll Treasure



The day you realize ‘you are a writer’
   distinct from what you’ve written

Is a day you’ll treasure for what it brings
  —and not what it leaves behind

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)


Scheme XX XX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 0111011010 0111110 1011101111 0111101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 196
Words 32
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 48
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on November 08, 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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