Analysis of Waste & Folly



We are ill-served to give those who do
nothing
and know nothing
—everything

(Dreamsleep: February, 2021)


Scheme XAAA X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (80%)
Lanturne  (60%)
Metre 111111111 10 0110 10 1100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 103
Words 16
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 42
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by sage48 on February 17, 2021

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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