Analysis of Across And Through



Crawling across the desert,
Running through the wilderness,
Walking across the ice
 —searching for the truth

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)


Scheme XXXX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Lanturne  (20%)
Metre 1001010 1010100 100101 10101 010010010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 147
Words 20
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 61
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on June 21, 2019

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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