Analysis of Epiphanous Light



Poetry travels
  where Prose cannot go

To sleep with the stars,
  by heaven aglow

Each new verse a planet,
  orbiting round…

An Epiphanous light,
 —burning profound

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)


Scheme XA XA XB XB X
Poetic Form
Metre 10010 11101 11101 11001 111010 1001 111 1001 01001010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 199
Words 30
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 31
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 09, 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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