Analysis of Chasing Miles...



Jazz without melody,
an arm with no hand

A heart without blood
—a sea with no land

(Dreamsleep: May, 2020)


Scheme XA XA X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Metre 101100 11111 01011 01111 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 104
Words 20
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 27
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 04, 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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