Analysis of Only To the Brave



Utopia belongs to the fleet of heart
  but the truth,
  —only to the brave

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)


Scheme XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 01000110111 101 10101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 111
Words 18
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 1
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 43
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 04, 2017

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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