Analysis of Waiting



Marooned inside the shallows
   —stalked by the next rising tide

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2015)


Scheme XX X
Poetic Form Quinzaine  (33%)
Metre 010101 1101101 010010010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 104
Words 14
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 1
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 42
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 07, 2019

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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