Analysis of Nothing But Time



Nature resplendent
  fog settling down

Darkness retreating
  storm clouds outbound

Sun reemerging
  rainbow behind

Spring in the meadow
  —nothing but time

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2014)


Scheme XX AX AX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 10010 11001 10010 111 11 101 1001 1011 010010100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 190
Words 25
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 32
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on October 20, 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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