Damsels
Kristina Bendepende 2006 (Marondera)
Damsels
Skin tight hip huggers
Clinging to their skin like paint
Eyelids pitch black
Lips ,plump and red
Face plastered with a triple layer of light clay
They parade on the walkways
Showing off all their leggy blossoming youth
At the verge of womanhood
The shy simple damsels,
Are all but lost in the golden pages of history
~Kaybee
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Submitted by bendependek on December 15, 2022
Modified on April 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AX XXX AXX AX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 346 |
Words | 73 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 3, 2 |
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