Analysis of One Kiss



Left just one chance
  to gild the night

One kiss,
… before you leave

8th Grade Poetry Contest
St Thomas Of Villanova Grade School
                May, 1962


Scheme XX XX XXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 1101 11 0111 11110010 110101011 1
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 160
Words 26
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 3
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 37
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on November 18, 2016

Modified on March 12, 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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