FLAMES



I was calm as an ocean,
without a breeze!
With words, he thought
Tried to seize.
I'M vast, he's just a stone

Burned flowers with his flame,
falling petals felt like a broken gem1
-Kusum Choudhary

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A poem that tells a deep meaning compared with flowers and their petals

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Written on March 04, 2006

Submitted by Kusumchoudhary on June 12, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXAX XXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 198
Words 42
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 3

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