Analysis of Smoke And Mirrors



I sold my memory
for a present reframed
The past in revision
—the future in shame

(Dreamsleep: July, 2022)


Scheme XXXX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Lanturne  (20%)
Metre 111100 10101 010010 01001 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 110
Words 21
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 42
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 21, 2022

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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