Analysis of Time's Betrothal



Married to the moment,
divorced from everything else
my vows repeated over and over
—this present forever to begin

(Dreamsleep: December, 2020)


Scheme XXAX A
Poetic Form Cinquain  (20%)
Metre 101010 011101 1101010010 110010101 1010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 141
Words 22
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 58
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on December 17, 2020

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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