Analysis of A Joy - A Curse



Loving one woman…
  a joy unto heaven

Loving two women…
  a curse upon the soul

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)


Scheme AA AX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (60%)
Metre 10110 011010 10110 010101 010010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 121
Words 19
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 31
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on September 28, 2016

Modified on March 14, 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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