Analysis of Glorious Welcome



Unto a rose,
 flower so sweet

Petals like velvet,
fragrance so deep

Up through the concrete,
lining many a field

Its glorious blossom
love’s welcome—revealed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)


Scheme XA XX AB XB X
Poetic Form
Metre 1001 1011 10110 1011 11001 101001 110010 11001 010010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 194
Words 29
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) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 19, 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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