Analysis of The Passion Enflamed



Don’t get ahead of the feeling,
  never forget a memory unlearned

Don’t think and kill the passion enflamed,
  forgoing the moment—all time left to burn

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)


Scheme XA AX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11011010 100101001 11010101 01001011111 0100101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 195
Words 29
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 49
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 07, 2019

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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