I am not Tolstoy

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

February 22 


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

Aye.

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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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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 116
Words 28
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4

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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