The Wretched Keep Where Black Angels Weep
I walk a path
Soon to end
Up into darkness
I will ascend
A cursed moon guides
To a wretched keep
Where fallen angels
Go to weep
I am the tears
That they cry
Born from the anguish
Of their forgotten eye
Dark depths beckon
With sinful song
In its eternal embrace
I am certain to belong
As turning tides
Pull me under
Calling my name
Is the warning thunder
Each day I pray
Unto no deity’s sake
Each day delays
The will to break
Ill begotten secrets
Are hardly kept
Until destined death claims me
From the shadows in which it crept
About this poem
This is one of those ones I did on the fly on a whim and just went with it, the inspiration was just a random thought of the first lines "I walk a path; Soon to end" and went from there.
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Submitted by Deshinitai on March 28, 2023
Modified on March 28, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCBDEFEGHIHJKLKDMNMOPQPRSTS |
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 537 |
Words | 111 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
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