Analysis of Lost Inferno



Inside the fantasy of a broken dream
  rages a ‘Lost Inferno’

Where we burn in fearful anticipation,
—waiting for the alarm to sound

(Las Vegas: January, 2016)


Scheme XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 01010010101 1001010 1110100010 10100111 110100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 161
Words 27
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 41
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 07, 2016

Modified on March 19, 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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