The Epic of Gilgamesh: The fall from the Light
Keith Lankford 1964 (AL)
Into the darkness
He slowly did fall
As he told the tale
As he left all
The world of the living
Slipping away
To the House of dust
Where he would stay
The angel of death
Had taken his hand
Gilgamesh save me
Make one final stand
Enkidu my friend
I will battle for you
When you arrive
Forget all you knew
Stray from the land
In spirit you might
First gather for me
The drum which sounds in the night
Into the Nether World he had arrived
Semi divine and with much pride
Now with the dead he made his home
Clothed in bird feathers his immortality now known
Knowing full well
What not to do
Yet banished to hell
He did as he so choose
Defiant in death
As in his life
His spirit was trapped
Deep eternal night
Crying to the gods
In the heavens above
Save Enkidu
For my friend I have much love
Enki and Shamash
Heard his trumpeting pleas
Yes we will help
Gilgamesh oh thee
Shamash with much force cracked open the Earthly lands
Enkidu’s spirit took flight, returning though once banned
Into the eyes of his brother in arms he did stare
As he told his tale of what he had gathered there
Surpassing all other kings
He who saw the deep
Found these possessions
To be ones he wished to keep
But as he soon ventured off
To distant foreign worlds
In anger he lashed out
As his fate unfurled
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Enkidu banished to the netherworld
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Submitted by Keithdalankford on November 17, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXA XBCB DEFE XGXG EHFH XXXX IGIX DXXH XJCJ XXXF XEKK XLXLXXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,300 |
Words | 271 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 8 |
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