Analysis of I am not Tolstoy

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



Would I dare speak of war
and cause my spirit to mar
the purity of ideas and hope
so to peace we could elope.


Scheme ABCC
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 0111011 0100101001 1111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 116
Words 28
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 85
Words per stanza (avg) 24

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War and Peace

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Written on February 27, 2022

Submitted by Kennet on February 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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