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 |
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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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