Analysis of The Winter Snows



Planting words inside my garden,
  watering them at will

Staking memories long forgotten,
  feelings cold and shrill

Row by row the letters planted,
  phrases start to grow

Whose cool fall day a harvest brings
  —to feed the winter snows

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)


Scheme AB AB XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 10101110 100111 101001010 10101 11101010 10111 11110101 110101 01001010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 269
Words 43
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 43
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 15, 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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