Analysis of A Poet's Gift



The most precious gift a Poet gets
—true knowledge of himself

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2019)


Scheme XX X
Poetic Form Quinzaine  (33%)
Metre 011010101 110101 01001010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 100
Words 15
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 1
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 41
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 09, 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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