Analysis of The Silent Poet
JESUS BETANCOURT 1955 (New York)
Residing high in an abandoned building
In an anonymous city can be found
A hermit poet was existing
Writing poetry without making a sound
The ghetto was his neighborhood view
Ruins surrounded every street
Wrote to reimagine slums into something new
His poetry turned sour into sweet
Walking around the city among the poor
Trying to find the poetic hermit
Expecting he was still writing more
Beautiful poems his silence would permit
Discovered him high above a rooftop
He appeared to be sitting on a cloud
Meditating while staring directly up
Chanting poetry without speaking out loud
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XXXX XEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 01010101010 01010010111 010101010 10100011001 01011101 100101001 111101101 1100110011 10010100101 1011001010 010111101 10010110101 010110101 1011110101 1001100101 10100011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
About this poem
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Written on October 05, 2023
Submitted on October 06, 2023
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