Analysis of Never To Last



All time shattered memory,
  and faces now past

Stare back as I dream
  —meant never to last

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)


Scheme XA XA X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (60%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Metre 1110100 01011 11111 11011 0100101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 127
Words 21
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 33
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 29, 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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