Analysis of Winter's Night



How many sunrises will I see,
how many poems will I write

How many Spring’s to then deceive
—until Autumn surrenders to Winter’s night

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2019)


Scheme XA XA X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1101111 11010111 11011101 01100101101 010010010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 177
Words 28
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 47
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on December 18, 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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