Analysis of Time's Fortune



How lucky you are…
to be a Poet

The window to tomorrow
left open

All tracks into the past
—to reclaim

(Dreamsleep: March, 2020)


Scheme XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11011 11010 010101 110 110101 101 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 125
Words 24
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 25
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 31, 2020

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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