Analysis of Too Much - Too Little



Understanding too much,
feeling too little

Our being unbalanced
—and spirit restrained

(Wayne Pennsylvania: January, 2020)


Scheme XX XX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Metre 01011 10110 1010010 01001 1010100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 120
Words 16
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 34
Words per stanza (avg) 5
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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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