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DISORDER

Robert James Smith

howl of wind
a taste of chance
and salt and sea and
circumstance

grids of life
in heartbeat time
tears in our precious
paradigm

disorder
will dance and sing
when comfort is not
comforting

is it wrong
to shun the warm
and seek the beauty
of the storm?
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Submitted by BB8MITH on May 21, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 256
Words 54
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
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