Names
Robert Creeley 1926 (Arlington) – 2005 (Odessa)
Marilyn’s was Norma Jean.
Things are not always as they seem.
Skin she lived back of like some screen
kept her wonder in common view,
said what she did, you could too,
loved by many, touched by few.
She married heroes of all kinds
but no one seemed to know her mind,
none the secret key could find.
Scared kid, Norma Jean?
Are things really what they seem?
What is it that beauty means?
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Submitted by allnerves on February 21, 2018
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABA CCC XDD ABX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 377 |
Words | 74 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
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