Analysis of Gale Warning



Name dropping success…
a first name basis with failure

Hope into the wind,
 heartache on the approaching storm

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2020)


Scheme XX XX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 11001 01110110 10101 1100101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 145
Words 22
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 40
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 02, 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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