Analysis of Those Words Evermore



Tell me you love me,
  tell me you’re sure

Tell me again,
  tell me once more

Say it resplendent,
  one breath to endure

Say one last time,
  those words evermore

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)


Scheme XA XB XA XB X
Poetic Form
Metre 11111 1111 1101 1111 11010 11101 1111 1110 01001010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 196
Words 34
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 30
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 11, 2016

Modified on March 18, 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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