Analysis of My Mistake

JESUS BETANCOURT 1955 (New York)



Next door neighbor offered me half of a pomegranate
Looked like a cracked bloody skull
Mistakingly thought he killed his Pomeranian pet
Found out it was a fruit not an animal


Scheme ABCB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Simple 4-line
Metre 1110101110010 1101101 1111101001 11110111100
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 174
Words 31
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 144
Words per stanza (avg) 31

About this poem

Sometimes poetry helps figuring things out.

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Written on October 17, 2023

Submitted on October 17, 2023

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