Analysis of Laughing Boys

Kennet Benoît-Hutchins 1952 (Snowdon, Montreal, QC)



Have you met the laughing boys?
those who flirt and walk a smile,
original bite-and-scratch toys,
who mock you with their guile.
they haunt the fringes of law,
this flock of beatified bitches,
parry and thrust, blood to draw
inflict their lingering itches.

Time moves on and soon they age,
in the passing interval become,
a parody of their youthful rage
with a bitterness no one can plumb.
bitches hound themselves as catch,
with the itch they cannot scratch.


Scheme ABABCXCX DEDEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 1110101 1110101 01001011 111111 1101011 11101010 1001111 01110010 1110111 001010001 010011101 101001111 1010111 1011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 446
Words 79
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 183
Words per stanza (avg) 40
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Submitted by Kennet on April 27, 2021

Modified on March 25, 2023

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Kennet Benoît-Hutchins

A Canadian ambulatory Homo sapiens male, who muses and just sometimes, remembers to make note of a verse or two. Unionist with Unifor, accident adjudicator. Runs amok with words, occasionally coherent. more…

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