Bard Returns from the Future



The Bard Returns from the Future
[Pearce Melville     曾 達]

Your Majesty I offer you glorious gifts
This day I return from future
rifts
Lutes exuding tones so pretty
I named it elektrickery

About this poem

A minstrel returns from travel to the future and is presenting gifts and tales for his Monarch

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Submitted by pearcemelville on July 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AX BABXA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 194
Words 34
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 5

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