Analysis of Giving & Taking



You flew in on a
  wish

And left on a broken
  dream

Bringing what I never
  wanted

Taking what I never
  had

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)


Scheme XX XX AX AX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11010 1 011010 1 101110 10 101110 1 010010100
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 143
Words 26
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 23
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 15, 2018

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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