Analysis of Tracking Upwind



A hunter
not skinner  
with quarry
so vast
Whose path
through the forest
is first
—never last

(Garrett Hill Pennsylvania: January, 2021)


Scheme AABCXXXC B
Poetic Form
Metre 010 110 110 11 11 1010 11 101 101010100
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 131
Words 22
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 54
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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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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