Velvet Moon



Velvet moon
rays cascading down
caressing so softly, your skin,
I could scream.

Dressed in nothing
but the moonlight,
wrapped in folds of silk and sin,
there, you dream.
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Written on 2019

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXAB XXAB
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 170
Words 34
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

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