Analysis of Conversus



Once free of the body,
into the soul
Majestic reversal,
the minstrels have told

A crown made of virtue,
death in the past
Whose regal foretelling
—a message to last

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)


Scheme XXXX XAXA X
Poetic Form
Metre 111010 0101 010010 01011 011110 1001 110010 01011 010010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 200
Words 34
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 55
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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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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