Analysis of What’s This Of Folly (???)

Edwin Tanguma 1966 (CA)



What’s This Of Folly   (???)

Woe signs from heaven
And men wise of their learning
What’s this of folly

Edwin Tanguma   Aka   Dagesh   12/23/2023


Scheme A xxA x
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 01110 11110 0111110 01110 10010101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 150
Words 27
Sentences 2
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 35
Words per stanza (avg) 11

About this poem

To each their own…Woe is me…So much for the Jews and Greeks…

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Written on December 23, 2023

Submitted by EdwinRayTanguma on December 23, 2023

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