Analysis of The Claimant



When you love someone,
you claim part of their spirit

Trading affection
—as the emptiness fills

(Dreamsleep: July, 2019)


Scheme AX AX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 1111 1111110 10010 101001 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 118
Words 19
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 32
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 11, 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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