Analysis of Coming Back



In the middle of nowhere…
the center of it all

Coming back to my beginning
—one choice to recall

(Fargo North Dakota: August, 2019)


Scheme XA XA X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 001011 010111 10111010 1111 1101010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 131
Words 24
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 34
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on August 08, 2019

Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on August 08, 2019

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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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