Analysis of Protostar



Will you live with me forever
will you scintillate my dreams
Holding title to my wishes
the island in my stream

Will you live with me forever
in a fantasy so wild
Making love to the hereafter
—our one and only child

(The New Room: March, 2023)


Scheme Axxx Abab x
Poetic Form
Metre 11111010 11111 10101110 010011 11111010 0010011 10110010 1010101 0111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 248
Words 49
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 64
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 01, 2023

Modified on April 01, 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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