Mourning
A secret vesper's script
In soft compression below
Praying in the sullen crypt
Sardonic passes they show
Between the down-tread line
Comes the smiling feminine
And encrusted charcoal shrine
Holds secrets spilled to him
So passing flax-seed flats
Overdone and bitter cake
Burned honey sticking plats
Of pastry like stone they make
Humble selves of all morrows
Gather in their solitude still
A soul with spacetime borrowed
A mantric phrase they yet instill
What magic cast dispels
A cloud of tense despise
Such hollow in the bells
Vibrations wash jaded eyes
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Submitted on January 23, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE DFXF GHGH |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 536 |
Words | 91 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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