Analysis of Answering Kate Tempest

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



I am definitely no renegade
Only a fast brief burst of light,
Shards of knowledge by grenade
My wings of wax take flight.

My faith has not lost its heart,
As it flits with our listless fate
It vanishes aromatic as a fart,
But my hope lives, never late.

I am definitely no renegade,
My light absorbed, used up,
Seen by players in an arcade
Til tilted like a beggar’s cup.

Now I have been imbibed, burped,
Night soil for ideals, evil and good
I do not yield, never ever usurped
I can not be bitten, tasted as food.

As I follow the Zeppelin sky pathway,
Sing not ever of an electric body,
I’m the whitless man in the archway
Neurons buffet my pinkness bloody.

I am definitely no renegade,
Bruised and bloodstained, I die
I am, now proudly so unafraid,
So in my death, I can only lie.

As with every lie, there is truth,
A false idol rends the testament
Soulless, never to meet honest Ruth,
Her widow’s voice calls us to Judgment.


Scheme Abab cdcd Aeae axxx fgfg Ahah ijij
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 111000110 10011111 1110101 111111 1111111 111110101 1100010101 1111101 111000110 110111 11100101 11010101 1111011 111011001 111110101 1111101011 1110010011 11101101010 1011001 10101110 111000110 10111 11110101 101111101 111001111 011010100 101011101 010111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 937
Words 199
Sentences 7
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 103
Words per stanza (avg) 25

About this poem

Kate Tempest is a British spoken word artist, musician and poet. This is a response to her poem - Renegade

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Submitted by Kennet on July 01, 2021

Modified by Kennet on February 27, 2022

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Kennet Benoit-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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