Analysis of Hope May Till



The beauty of a Rose…
  in the heart of one who knows

That love’s a gift of time,
  both temporal and sublime

The seedling of a wish,
  future memory to enlist

That hope may till the fields
  —budding Roses to conceal

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)


Scheme AA BB XX XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 010101 0011111 110111 1100001 010101 10100101 111101 1010101 01001010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 253
Words 45
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 39
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 21, 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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