Analysis of Couplets On Fire



Questioning forward,
  answering back

Ideas move inward,
  time has gone slack

This moment eternal,
  reference hacked  

The couplets on fire,
 —reason attacked

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)


Scheme AB AB CD XD C
Poetic Form
Metre 10010 1001 010110 1111 110010 1001 01110 1001 01001010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 193
Words 26
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 31
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 27, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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