Analysis of Triumph Or Die



You can live
  in the past

Or pine
  for the future

But only
  in the present

Will you triumph

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2013)


Scheme XX XX XX X X
Poetic Form
Metre 111 001 11 1010 110 0010 1110 0100101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 136
Words 25
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 1, 1
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 20
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on July 02, 2017

Modified on March 05, 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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