Analysis of MY MIXED UP SENSES

JESUS BETANCOURT 1955 (New York)



I touched your poem with my eyes
Licked every word with my fingers
Heard every verse through my nose with surprise
The scent of your poetry in my ears still lingers


Scheme ABAB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11110111 110011110 11001111101 0111100011110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 165
Words 31
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 134
Words per stanza (avg) 31

About this poem

I bumped my head when I wrote this.

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Written on December 08, 2021

Submitted by jb809499 on December 08, 2021

Modified on April 29, 2023

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