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The Apple in My Hand

Jake Williams

Free verse
The apple in my hand is rotting

It’s decay like perfume


Your apple is alive

Teeming with life


Oh, how I wish I had your apple!

To get rid of my tainted fruit

And exchange for your wondrous crop

Would surely be a marvel


My apple is rotting

Yours is alive


You pity mine

And I yearn yours

About this poem

This poem is about the desire to live somebody else's life. I wrote this poem because I've always wondered what it would be like to be somebody else.

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Written on November 10, 2023

Submitted by JakeWilliams on November 10, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A X B X C X X C A B X X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 303
Words 75
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
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