Analysis of Tears Of Pain



Those most desperate among us,
  must learn to cry alone

Themselves regained through tears of pain
  —to mark their pathway home

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)


Scheme XX XX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 1110011 111101 01011111 11111 01001010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 164
Words 25
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 44
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 21, 2019

Modified on March 14, 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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