Over and Over
like a willow on its way
to winter
softly letting leaves drop
boughs stern in the wind
before long the sickle
will pierce as far as the trunk
and nothing remains but to wait
for a revival
will next summer still
recover the colors of those days when
everything blossomed and beaks
were fed on a branched lap
of rods gleaming like gold
as life had surpassed
the somberness of death
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Submitted by ludy_b on October 23, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | XXXX AXXA XX XXXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 365 |
Words | 71 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 2, 5 |
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