Analysis of 99.9



Extinction probability,
  ninety nine point nine

History’s infinitive,
  the graveyard of time

Cosmology winning out
  in the end

The hourglass draining
  —last thought to befriend

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)


Scheme XX XX XA XA X
Poetic Form
Metre 0100100 10111 10100 0111 0100101 001 01010 11101 01001010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 214
Words 29
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 35
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 14, 2019

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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