Analysis of Love Waits

Kurt Philip Behm

Time waits…
  the handmaiden of love

Love waits,
—only upon itself

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)

Scheme AX AX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (80%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Lanturne  (20%)
Metre 11 0111 11 100101 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 103
Words 15
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 27
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 05, 2016

Modified on March 05, 2023

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