Analysis of If



If wishes were dreams,
—eternity could sleep

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)


Scheme XX X
Poetic Form Quinzaine  (33%)
Metre 11001 010011 010010100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 85
Words 11
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 1
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 35
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 01, 2017

Modified on March 14, 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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