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

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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Quick analysis:

Scheme A xxA x
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 150
Words 27
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 1

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