Analysis of Fool's Gold



A bigger fish,
a smaller pond

A greater truth
alludes

The water shallow,
banks now void

Of fishermen
bemused

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)


Scheme XX XX XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 0101 0101 0101 01 01010 111 1100 01 01001010
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 139
Words 23
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 24
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 24, 2020

Modified on March 27, 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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