A bucket for the depths (Sonnet)
An old wooden bucket, bound with iron rusty
plunged in a well of stone, tied to an iron chain
with old wheels and pulleys that you can hear complain
in the depths of the pit all along its galleries
Scattered throughout the depths of our countries
of these secular wells, many legends remain
The nightmarish beings hanging around their pain
and the innocent souls vanished mysteriously
Sometimes came from the depths, at night we seem to hear,
when suddenly the wind calms down between two gusts,
the groaning of a beast in the grip of a curse
But once the bucket out, look inside without fear
In the water only moon and stars will appear
Beings of the well are nothing more than artists
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Submitted on September 26, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABBC CBBA XXX DDX |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 675 |
Words | 124 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
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