Analysis of Paradoxical

JESUS BETANCOURT 1955 (New York)



I feel like I've known you since yesterday
Even though I'll first meet you tomorrow
Today I think I heard you say
We'll never know what the past will follow


Scheme ABAB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 111111110 101111101 01111111 1101101110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 156
Words 30
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 124
Words per stanza (avg) 30

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Absurdity of Poetry

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Written on February 03, 2023

Submitted on February 03, 2023

Modified on April 30, 2023

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