Analysis of Black Holes

JESUS BETANCOURT 1955 (New York)



Speed of Dark
Overcomes light
Consumes the spark
Of everything bright

Elementary quark
Bends out of sight
Black dogs bark
Before they bite


Scheme ABAB ABAB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 111 101 0101 1101 0101 1111 111 0111
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 140
Words 24
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 58
Words per stanza (avg) 12

About this poem

Everything exists inside the void.

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Written on November 23, 2022

Submitted by jb809499_1 on November 24, 2022

Modified on April 29, 2023

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