Analysis of Enchante



Magic passes through you,
though never yours to own

Taking you beyond yourself
—gifted spell unknown

(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)


Scheme XA XA X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 101011 110111 1010101 10101 1100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 127
Words 19
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 35
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by Kurt Philip Behm on February 08, 2020

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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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