Analysis of Poetry Can't



A novel can be written and detach
  from its author
   —but poetry can’t

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)


Scheme XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 0101110001 1110 11001 010010100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 114
Words 17
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 1
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 43
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 14, 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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