Analysis of Full Circle



Your arms around a memory,
your heart around the past
your hope around tomorrow’s wish
—your present to recast

(Dreamsleep: January, 2022)


Scheme ABXB A
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 11010100 110101 1101011 110101 1100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 145
Words 25
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 55
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by sage48 on January 18, 2022

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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