The Snowdrop
This spring morning
Perceiving growth
From dark clay
A flower I love more
Than all the flowers
Of today...
While a-listening to
Birds in a small Irish
Wood its beauty attracted
Me as nothing else could.
As a flower it symbolises
Childhood long ago
That golden age of life
Where I would like to go.
But now I pray that the rest
Of my life will be long so as
To yearly welcome 'snowy'
Within silence or near song.
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Submitted on February 22, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 394 |
Words | 79 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 4, 4 |
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