Analysis of Step Carefully

Kurt Philip Behm

The naive garden
is filled with snakes
To slither and nest
—where ignorance waits

(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)  

Scheme XXXX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (60%)
Cinquain  (40%)
Metre 0110 1111 11001 11001 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 112
Words 18
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) 43
Words per stanza (avg) 9

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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 30, 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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