Analysis of To Paul & John



Popular music,
and popular verse

Their power intrinsic,
listeners search

Beyond even Mozart
and Longfellow’s rhyme

A gift to the masses
—in presents of time

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2019)


Scheme AX AX XB XB X
Poetic Form
Metre 10010 01001 110010 1001 011010 011 011010 01011 010010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 195
Words 29
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 32
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on September 21, 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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