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F A D E

Jacey Flatte-Shrum 1994 (Arkansas)

Free verse
When words come out like   long    slow      sluurrs

heavy with the weight of sleep

Bleary I love yous

f a d i n g

I am home

in this dream state

About this poem

I wrote this poem one night after groggily rolling over and seeing my lover asleep next to me. It's the feeling of the state between being awake and dreaming

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Written on July 30, 2020

Submitted by jaceyflatte on August 18, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A X A X X X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 149
Words 36
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
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