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sans roots

Rex Wade Hoyt

self nurtured by nature
maternal despair
age knew no father
thus limited, bare

found footing in mountains
sans roots, still I grow
beneath water's depths
I rise from below

explored & exploited
layers naked, unsealed
defined definitions
once feigned, now revealed
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Written on March 31, 2004

Submitted by RWHoyt on April 25, 2023

Modified on April 25, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CDXD XECE
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 267
Words 46
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
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