Analysis of Purged and Coupled

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



I have led a dreamless life.
I witnessed, lived and tolerated hate,
I witnessed, lived and tolerated love.

I have loved hate.
I have hated love.
I need to lead a dreamful life.


Scheme ABC BCA
Poetic Form
Metre 111011 110101001 110101001 1111 11101 1111011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 177
Words 39
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 3
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 68
Words per stanza (avg) 17

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Dichotomy of Life

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Written on December 11, 2023

Submitted by Kennet on December 14, 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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