Analysis of Before The Storm



The wildness of nobility,
the fire before the storm

The question with many answers
—the substance within the form

(Dreamsleep: October, 2019)


Scheme XA XA X
Poetic Form
Metre 01010100 0100101 01011010 0100101 1010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 139
Words 22
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 38
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on October 18, 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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