Analysis of Perchance To...

Kurt Philip Behm

We make the beds we lie in
—to sleep or not

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)

Scheme XX X
Poetic Form Quinzaine  (67%)
Metre 1101110 1111 1100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 71
Words 14
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 1
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 27
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on January 03, 2020

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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