Analysis of Literal Obesity



Word count a burden,
  lines adding weight

Meaning gets crushed,
  —feelings deflate

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)


Scheme XA XA X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (80%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Metre 11010 1101 1011 1001 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 119
Words 16
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 32
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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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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