I Know
I Know
I know a few things (well)
I know my limits
I know the world
Works well without me. I know
Not all who die by the sword
Lived by it
Not all hoary heads
Honoured their parents
Not all who pay their dues
Get their due
Not all who sow in tears
Reap in joy
There’s something
Written in the stars
So I dropped the glasses
Black and white
But when I’m not sure of anything else
I know there is God
About this poem
The poem is simple & self explained. It's about the obvious and inexplicable contradictions that are sometimes found in life, or those questions without answers.
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Submitted by ucheo.22892 on September 28, 2022
Modified on April 13, 2023
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| Scheme | XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX |
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| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 411 |
| Words | 93 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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