When The Fates Allow
I don’t write Sonnets,
or Limerick verse
I don’t write Haiku,
though often terse
I don’t write Ballads,
or Horacian Odes
I don’t write Parables,
to self-implode
But I do write in Rhythm,
and often in Rhyme
With meaning that’s buried,
and metered in time
All verbal indenture,
I must disavow
For the meaning to rise,
—when the fates allow
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on November 16, 2016
Modified on March 09, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XA XA XX XX XB XB CD XD C |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 390 |
Words | 64 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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