Analysis of A Last Dance



How looks my love at dawn
in Spring
the air a festive vase
of hope
to lord each sprout of truth
with praise
and sing what only birds
announce

Her steps become a
garden path
her breath a fragrance
o’er the hills
to dance with future,
present, past
and spin each partner
—time undone

(Dreamsleep: October, 2021)


Scheme XXXXXXXX XXXXAXAX A
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 01 010101 11 111111 11 011101 01 01010 101 01010 101 11110 101 01110 101 1010
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 298
Words 57
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 82
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted by sage48 on October 29, 2021

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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