Ol' Anchor Lane
[SNAP] [SMASH]
The bones X as he dragged out the sap to the alley to X his knee-
caps and his legs
Axe- as a blade
he'd hide in the basement hiss, slither, snake
like John Wayne
Gacy
he'd been in the past A GUY ON A PATH
to diamond blood baths
and cases
they tossed him in the bottomless pit with roaches and trash
erasing him
and so they say
this goblin was chained for robbing eight banks in marauder gangs and
threatening to throttle anyone that he wanted so often
they couldn't stop him
from bartering pain
until the day came
they got him, they caught him, and locked him up safe
so they
thought
in their brains
but he plotted and trained with a
spoon for a spade, he'd dig and he'd raid with fire and flame he'd raze hell and chase down the watchers and take them as monster's prey to spit on the chest of the slavers he'd slain
then fly off away to his sweet miss in distress on Ol' Anchor Lane
on tile floor for a while orange pill bottle bricks in a pile of water
with his babe blue as rain
the same as his daughter .
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Written on July 30, 2023
Submitted by Desmond_Black on July 30, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABX XXCB XXX AD EXXDC X XEXX XC CFCF |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,165 |
Words | 225 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 3, 2, 5, 1, 4, 2, 4 |
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