Analysis of Which Rose



What’s in a title,
what’s in a name

What does it matter,
praise—or to blame

(Dreamsleep: May, 2020)


Scheme XA XA X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (60%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Metre 00010 0001 11110 1111 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 101
Words 18
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 24
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 08, 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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