Analysis of Swan Song

Kurt Philip Behm

Apollo now guards
   my Prose and my Verse

His Swan sings at last,
 —the Raven in search

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)

Scheme XX XX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (60%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Metre 01011 11011 11111 01001 01001010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 124
Words 21
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 32
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 12, 2017

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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