Analysis of Degeneratus



The
gambler’s
asylum,
a table
waits
in hell

Your last card
out,
your first card
in,
aces all
—pray tell

(The New Room: March, 2021)


Scheme XXXXXA BXBXXA X
Poetic Form
Metre 0 10 010 010 1 01 111 1 111 0 101 11 0111
Characters 124
Words 25
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 1
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 8
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 33
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by sage48 on March 27, 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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