Manna Tips The Scales
Manna Tips the Scales
Weighing similar symptoms people had
When they would heed a potent master's call,
Life on a yoyo-string against that mad
Daily careering back to grief and gall,
Since neither tipped his scale either way
Or sparked an urge to join a race in chains
Or in the balance had sufficient sway
To tempt a trade of sloth for all its strains—
He loitered in a waiting space between,
A medium of humdrum and surprise,
Time-heavy at its worst, a slow routine
When manna ceased to fall from fickle skies,
But when it came, he worked a hard beat too
Until some hoisted harvest moon shone blue.
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Submitted by parashootin on January 16, 2024
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Scheme | X ABABCDCD EFEFGG |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 604 |
Words | 117 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 6 |
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