Reels of silk in the mouth
Soft as a sigh, a cascade of silk
Conjured from the strands of whispers supreme
Every word tells softly all my names
Showing their meanings and how they stand
With all my best in dressing old words new
Spending again what is already spent
As the sun is daily new and old
Weaving the essential forms of grace
In fondness for a blooming virgin
On reels of luminous silk
Tanged with light as daylight ghost
In that mystic world of the poet
Where the sad manhood that sees no smiles
On her dazzling proud face
With curious eyes that saw the manners
In figures, symbols and images
To raise up visions of historic hours
Who prove and never turn a hair
In a world strained by reels of luminous silk
Sweeping unchanged the imperfect hearts
Of silent tongues in old four letters of the page
For loud acclaim he does not care
But only gaze from heaven to tell and vice-versa
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Submitted on October 15, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | A X X X X X X B X A X X X B C X C D A X X D X |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 842 |
Words | 161 |
Stanzas | 23 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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