Analysis of NO GUESSING

Jesus Betancourt 1955 (New York)



Everyone knows how they're going to die
You're just going to stop breathing
It's the When, Where or Why
Suspenseful questions that keeps your heart beating


Scheme ABAB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 101111011 11101110 101111 01010111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 156
Words 26
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 126
Words per stanza (avg) 26

About this poem

There's no Day/Life savings time

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Written on November 10, 2021

Submitted by jb809499 on November 11, 2021

Modified on April 16, 2023

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