Analysis of Silence

Kurt Philip Behm

Keep your words close,
—but the silence closer

(Grantham New Hampshire: July, 2016)

Scheme XX X
Poetic Form Quinzaine  (33%)
Metre 1111 101010 101101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 83
Words 13
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 1
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 33
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 08, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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