Forgiveness For Less
I never read it,
the way it was written
I never wrote it,
the way it should read
The lines connected,
were for me to be broken
A lesson once ending,
is where I began
I spoke out of time,
out of place…out of line
I wrote what I saw,
once the future was gone
I prided myself,
in a vision self nurtured
Asking permission for nothing,
—and forgiveness for less
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February,2017)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 03, 2017
Modified on May 02, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AB AX XB CX XX XX XX CX X |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 399 |
Words | 75 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
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