Analysis of Twilight



Wonder divides the day
—as fear stalks the night

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)


Scheme XX X
Poetic Form Quinzaine  (67%)
Metre 100101 11101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 86
Words 13
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) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 23, 2018

Modified on March 10, 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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