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Stones Roll

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

Ode
Rocks do so fall
Upon nature’s mall
To be seen by all
Spring, until our fall.

But in the winter’s cold
They’re not so very bold
Resting upon earth’s fold
For my eyes to truly mould.

About this poem

An ode to Newfoundland's nickname, The Rock

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Written on July 13, 2022

Submitted by Kennet on July 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAAA BBBB
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 190
Words 38
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
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Kennet Benoît-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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