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Heavy

Jenny

Free verse
Heavy
Heavy is the head
that wears the crown
that bears the weight
of all my mistakes, misgivings, mistortunes.
I'm no Queen.
You are no King
Yet we rule
we govern
we decree
And
We
just
f*ck everything up.

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A little Shakespeare. A lot of just life.

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Written on December 26, 2021

Submitted by jennifer.fay on December 27, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFGHIAJAKL
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 205
Words 41
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
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